A TOUCH OF WINTER


Winter blue and green covered in white

The mountainside sloping with colors

Seemingly lifeless like a dream

Hidden within wooded evergreens


Animals play and eat what little

Nature provides in the cold

For beauty the eye can behold

Life holds tightly to the buried food


Spring remains far and summer a memory

Footprints can be found

But again the snow will come to fill them

Deer and elk stand tall, watchful of the land


The Bear sleeps, slowly shedding the his bounty

Curled within walls of earth

Silent to the world and winter storms

Awaiting spring and abundance to return


With the wind swaying trees

Snow falls to the ground

Bare aspen interspersed naked

Stripped of leafs lifting to the sky


Michael V Hechtman Copyright 2000