Mid-winter Memento

Inspired by today's true story...😊 I planned to tend to Task-demandBut then a sea of snowflakes fellIt drew me to the hill and dellTo revel in its wonderland …where nature’s winter-wand unfurledMasterpiece over masterpieceTeasels with toques of frosted fleeceAnd whipped cream snow drifts, swirled and twirled Each tree, a pencil sketch, I thinkStenciled and traced with white finesseWhite whispers of white happinessRouse a reverent rush of ink …as brook-nooks that no chill can snareCompose somber half-ballads, ohIts tempo, curtailed by the snowEvokes a eulogy-like air Where in the wood I stood, full-awedUnfazed by Tasks I should attendTo marvel, where earth's pages bendBeneath the poetry of God © Janet Martin