Sudden blizzard
unleashes ghostly breath
misting in deathly white
hurling frozen fistfuls
to angry winds
until new day dawns
a fresh crystal blanket
christening
each tree, each post
wedding white
burying all remains—
not lost, just waiting
to be uncovered
by wind and sun.
©2017 Ontheland
Photo credits: The first photo is from Pixabay (public domain) and the second, I took in January last year.
Kim is the host today at dVerse Poets Pub for Quadrille Monday: ‘Ghost’.
Ontheland 
hurling frozen fistfuls
to angry winds…great image of the blizzard!
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Thank you 🙂
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I liked how the blizzard made everything “wedding white” with its “ghostly breath”.
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Thank you 🙂 fog, mists, blasts of cold and ghosts seem to go together well (hats off to the prompt :))
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The blizzard leaves it all so lovely… I love winter when it’s good… and being inside when it draws the ghostly breath,
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Yes being warm and cozy is very satisfying 🙂
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That is a chilly Quadrille, Janice, with pictures to match! You’ve described a real winter, a satisfying winter – and I love the lines:
‘Sudden blizzard
unleashes ghostly breath’
and
‘hurling frozen fistfuls
to angry winds’.
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Thank you Kim 🙂
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I agree, you have described magnificently winter in full blooming glory!
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Thank you 🙂
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Finely drawn images of a snowstorm. So lovely to be warm inside and looking out at a “fresh crystal blanket”!
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Yes that’s one of my favourite parts: looking out…also I do enjoy myself outside when the wind is down and the sun is shining.
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This is such a beautiful description of a winter storm…what we see and feel. I love the “ghostly breath!”
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Thanks 🙂 I was trying to capture some of what it’s like in winter storms (and otherwise)
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You did! 🙂
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I liked the ‘wedding white’ too. Lovely chilly descriptions.
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Thank you 🙂
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I like the different moods you create as the storm moves through.
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I love snow and real cold winter. this poem conjured up all I love about winter.
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I love all the references to life stages. Even the afterlife.
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I love your reading. I started writing within recent experiences but as I wrote could feel the pull of life cycles and cycles in human history.
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Yes, I could feel that. And I love it that you went from the particular to the larger picture.
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Although I don’t like snow, your poem described it in such beautiful words. Well done. 🙂
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Thank you.
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A very physical and moving poem beautifully bookended by the images . Great artistry Janice.
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Thank you Denis 🙂
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Love how the sun seems to appear the day after. You captured this well.
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Thank you 🙂
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Wow…if weathermen would sing their reports so poetically 🙂
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An interesting thought 😉
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.Nice work……just waiting to be uncovered……lovely line.
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Thank you Paul.
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I never thought of it before, but snow does conjure waiting. Nice image. (K)
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Thank you 🙂
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just waiting
to be uncovered
by wind and sun
So it goes day in day out within its own domain until the change of a new season in due course
Hank
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Wonderful description–I could feel the wind and the cold!
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An unfortunate side effect perhaps 😉
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🙂
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Awesome!
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Thanks Dorna 🙂
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Love the image of “a fresh crystal blanket christening each tree.” The visual beauty of winter painted perfectly. ❤
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Thank you 🙂
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Winter is a beautiful bride, smiles ~ Love this share Janice ~
I have a question for you: can you please contact me at sometimesg@yahoo.com ? Thanks ~
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Thanks Grace. I sent you an email.
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