Littondale In The Snow…
(from the Yorkshire Dales painting by Anya Simmons…)
Barbed trees flank a group of tidy dwellings,
Like Somme trench wire glaring at an approaching storm;
Conifers, having shaken off clinging snow
Now furl
In futile attempts to shrug
From their mantles the blizzard’s cloying flakes;
Perturbed birds surge above blanketed roofs
And clipped hedges like iced cakes;
Yet the snow soon sets out its pallid stall
To swirl
And indiscriminately fall,
Gust and bluster, then cluster
And hurl
Its beauty upon Littondale’s tranquility serene…
Pete Ray
November 2020
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