A Grace of Snowflakes

 yesterday it did not snow

yet we were given a grace of snowflakes

(above they are on the surface of my frozen creek)

I have never seen frost grow like this, never

and note the one like a hand holding a snowflake

 they landed on my wooden steps

 upon my car's windshield

 the day before we had a different expression of ice crystals

like roses

one clear evening 

the sky touched our hearts

tomorrow is Imbolc:

Gaelic festival marking the beginning of spring

here it does not feel like spring

yet the days are getting longer

in 4 weeks time

  most often i will not need to plow snow again

so i will enjoy these winter days

until spring begins to grace our lives

 

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Enraptured

imagine that life exists
simply and always exists
before and after we meet each spectacular moment
life is

yesterday a breath of air and moisture existed
at night they mingled with freezing temperatures

grew into a delight for our eyes

winter crystals

sun comes to shine
and they melt
but that life
lived before and now after they were born into crystals

imagine that life always is
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this is where I met these crystalline beauties:

to my eyes

this mornings forest was cloaked in fuzzy frost 

yet up close

I was enraptured with what I found

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