Mother Nature Is Fickle

Winter’s cold is Mother Nature’s way
Of saying, tis come now, time to rest
It’s snow a blanket under which to lay
Neath a crystal cover, a cold caress

Frost rimed windows … Mother Nature’s art
Icy abstractions painted with frosty finesse
Crystalline concoctions that form only a part
Of Mother Nature's wonderful winter largesse

Ice coated limbs of slope shouldered trees
Hang drowsily down as if fallen asleep
Unable to sway in winter’s frigid breeze
Appear as white mounds, when the snow drifts deep

The stillness one hears on cold winter nights
Broken by the sudden crack of ice laden boughs
The ethereal essence of undulating northern lights
Headlights in the sky for Nature’s snowplows

All is withdrawn, in awe of Nature’s might
Willingly waiting, deep neath frozen ground
Safely sequestered, from winter’s cruel bite
In warm tunnels and burrows, til spring comes around

Mother Nature invites winter into her domain
Cohabits with coldness, wantonly sleeps with the frost
Yet finds cold winter quickly falls to disdain
Invites spring to her bed…and tells winter to get lost

Mother Nature is fickle…and also the boss!