Day 141 of the 365 day poem challenge.
Word of the day Hibernal meaning: "of, characteristic of, or occurring in winter."
Ice
Red and blue tones in the dark
hibernal reflected in tall spindly skeleton pines
Their fingers gnarled and stiff
The dark night whistles by them
Makes them into an army
Of silent soldiers
Wailing and praying for release
The trees are oppressive
They rise from the icy bluff
They have canals
Their long narrow stretches that
The ice penetrates and turns to rock
The tall proud rooks
The wise sentinels presiding over the frost scape
The ice makes caves in the darkness
Invisible crevices below their hard surface the bark tears apart
Hesitating burning for release
All the while fighting
The intolerable ice.
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