The gray clouds press in like a dome
and smother the sound of the forest.
There is only the color white of
snow blanketing the Earth.
A flicker of red passes by as
A male cardinal lands on a branch
In the yard. Even the birds are
quiet within their group.
The weight of snow makes the trees
droop with weariness as if an old lady
resting at the end of the long day
that started in the dark.
Everything feels muffled and stifled
by snow and the endless cold and
there’s no sign of Spring any time
soon at the end of February.
The silence is infinite and white.
About the Creator
Fiona Howell
I am Fiona Howell, an Irish musician and a writer hailing from New Hampshire, US. I have two books out on Amazon: The Locked Box and Blackwood. I have three poems published in anthologies by the Peterborough Poetry Project.
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No Word Comes Near Enough
The English language has its limits. I learned this when I became a student of the Bible and looked up the Greek and Hebrew definitions behind the Scriptures I loved. Some languages have so much more depth and power than the one I use to convey my thoughts. But, even so, I don't think any word could ever come close to describing this void and pain I am journeying through. I don't know how to swim through its murky waters.
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mycelial
If I were a mushroom and you were a tree I would have found you already — threaded myself through the dark to where your roots reach down and wove myself in. They see my fruit. Beautiful enough to want, too dangerous to hold. But you would know what lives beneath — the web of me, moving through every dark and patient inch between us. I would bring you what the deep holds. You would give me light made solid. Neither of us would need a word for it — the forest never has. When you find me you won’t feel the finding, only that you always knew where your roots were going.
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Beautiful! Really captured what it can feel like. I’m in MA