pine tree – Leaf And Twig

Through The Woods

you will find
their snowy roof
and Christmas pine

and now I know
the words
to your song

Christmas
in the distance
the thinly visible pine

the storm
an instruction
of togetherness

our purpose
ordained by proximity
to one another

evergreen thread
stitching together
each season to the next

the pine wears sleet
like many steps of bird’s feet
leaving the sign of peace

time crosses slowly
December’s snowy bridge
sojourn to the far side of remembering

no reservations needed
come on in and roost
beneath the snowy roof

winter etches
all the fine edges
into landscape and memory

the pinecone
elucidates the pine tree
on how things came to be

brushstrokes hang in the air
as slow snow paints the world white

it comes and comes and covers all
the ground, the trees and all of fall

In all her dazzling displays and subtle simplicities
nature’s ever evolving beauty nurtures
the ability to be grateful.