Snowdropping

 Drip, drop

warmth of Spain in your pale cream

Milk white warm 

And sadness for the year that's been

But like a mother's breast

Full of life giving

For the year to come

Miniature brothers

Miniature sisters go

walking through the forest

Praising the cool silent winter Earth

Healing flower footsteps

Bloom in their path

Praising the life of this good Earth

What purity you can read

In their books of green leaves

Standing up like flutes or reeds

But heads bowed down

In prayer, humility

Or perhaps

Just loving the Earth

As it smiles on them

In it's darkest months

Growing them in its womb

Like eggs, their bulbs will

burst forth in birth

Growing strong with Mother Earth's milk

Snow white babies crying out in joy

Snow white children running through the woods

In their snowshoes girl and boy

Telling all the fairy tales of childhood