Wintry Symbols

Icey Winter Ornament - MS 2021

 

Wintry Symbols

The textured note,

How minute in scale,

To dissect and split

And measure the woven waves—

Yet breathing life,

The ears receive

Pristine chimes

And enchanted tunes—

The wintry symbols,

So clear in form

(The star, the wreath, the bell)

Put mind at ease

And light the heart

With warmth amidst the frost—

From macrocosmic cut-outs

To natural forms in paper,

The shapes bring forth

Their light and truth

Pointing thus to

A loving world,

A timeless

Single

Note.

MS21

(The following are some parts I cut out of the revision but feel they have some potency yet):

The unchanging Forms

With multitudinous reflections

In paper, in plastic, in gold

Do embody the unspeakable truths—

On these wintry days

When warmth we seek,

A bell, a cane, a ball, a flake—

May bring a song, a lucid tune

To light our hearts aflame.