Winter Fog

"The mind-is not the heart.
I may yet live, as I know others live,
To wish in vain to let go with the mind-
Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me
That I need learn to let go with the heart.”
~Robert Frost

Winter Fog

A Roundel

The fog came slow pretending

very softly it was snow,

all white and never-ending.

The fog came slow.

All the things I didn't know

were lost in undefending

silhouetted frozen glow;

their beacon was a friending,

a breath of blue to blow
scope, light and comprehending.       

Still, fog was never snow.

~March 2014 

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Images: Top: Winter Fog, 1895, by Arkhip Kuindzhi

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Footer: Snow, 1936, by M.C.Escher

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