Bleak Winter

MAGPIE 247

Snowstorm, Maurice Vlaminck

Courtesy Tess Kinkaid :   http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2014/11/mag-247.html

Winding country roads

In so many places

When cold, stark winter 

 Takes over 

The

Northern hemisphere

The story's the same

Blizzards and muddy sludge

In New York  State

North Europe 

Or

Yorkshire moors 

Motorists carefully steering

Over treacherous black ice

That cannot be seen

Transparent beneath

The

Churning slush

Dark dreary afternoons

All around is dim

But distant lights shine

Welcoming home

Every

Loved one

Barbara M Lake  ©

Trinidad WI

November 2014