Approaching Silence

An Approaching winter snow

 

Approaching Silence

 

All around the grayness gathers

Filtering, hiding and darkening the vast blue sky

Shadowy shapes crash through from above

Becoming more clear as they dive into safety

Softly now the sounds become

Ever more stealthily the skies deeply fold

To caress the deep softness in sound

 

Shadowy, slowly and silently now it reaches

Farther, yet still farther into its depths of memories

Can one deny its fast approaching?

Can one stand in its way to cast it aside?

Relentlessly covering, deeply now darkening

And at last the first flakes do fall

Casting a silent white blanket all round!

 

 

Reviews

[Tania Leigh]

Wonderful imagery for a subject I know all too well right now, here in New England lol

Beautiful poem, George!

[Dezaraye]

This is perfect! You captured this feeling beautifully. I often sit still and watch a storm come. There's something about a snowfall that is so quiet and still and it makes me want to be quiet and still, too.