WINTER WALKERS

The natural beauty of icy inner-city streets bathed in winter white moonlight

Starlight …

Icy crystalline sparkles

beaming brilliance

‘gainst the moonlit  winter sky

 

Stars bright.

Luminescent wonders.

Scintilla laid bare in the heavens

by the pale white light of the moon

 

Full moon

bathing dingy cityscapes,

their dim lit tawdry tales told

‘neath streetlamps’ jaundiced glow.

 

We walk,

slip on ice, crunch through snow,

watching  for sliding cars

and dangers lurking in shadows.

 

Moonlit

whitewashed winter  wind

winds through desolate streets

on a pale cold night in the city.

 

Walk on.

Whistling winds, barking dogs,

chill us, spur our pace, on

through the moonlight and cold.

 

Our  wish

upon this night’s heavenly stars

is to  be safely home, watching

from icy windows … winter  walkers.

Reviews

[Cherrie Palmer]

Her beauty can be deadly ,but from countryside to city, there is few things more lovelv after a winter's blanket is laid.

[Dutch Jr.]

I really like how you can paint the urban life in such a positive light, without taking away from its natural vigor and swagger. The line, "Dangers lurking in the shadows" tells me that even though winter is a beautiful scene, life still remains and the daily threats of survival are still present. Great write.