Winter

 

Winter mornings

wake silvered white

Lawns are slivers

of spiked grass

 

Frosted opaque windows

Ice coated pavements

Feet stamp,

sliver and slide

Frozen ponds are

panes of glass

Icicles hang dagger-like,

then drip in the thaw

 

Cars stall, trains halt 

Buses are snowed in

Winter, when sometimes

Everything stops

And time stands still