Winter Dark -- on the First Day of Advent, the Dawn of the Return of the Light

Trish Steel [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

The Sky is Black 

By Elyse

Girded by white frames

blue skies shine and shimmer

Fading daylight makes a dreamy canvas

Tufts of clouds slip onward, slow and lazy

Leaves of Fall touched daintily by wind

shake against the outside peeling fence posts

Grape vines tremble, rotted edges browned

The sky is grey, blending with hazy clarity into

evening. Plants are hard to see

 against the fence. Died-down winds

Pastel gone dull

The sky is black, the flowers vanished, gone 

Copyright Elyse at Liturgical Time 2012