Has it all been said? <br />The Winter Wonderland, <br />the landscape under coverlet, <br />dreaming in a soft white bed. <br /> <br />The crack <br />breaks the underwater silence: <br />the sound of branches bending <br />under unaccustomed weight. <br />See the tips of bamboo leaves <br />dark against the purity: <br />cloak of virgin crystals that lies <br />on all the branches in the quiet garden. <br /> <br />A Christmas scene? <br />too seldom seen, <br />relic of happy childhood, <br />the short-lived beauty <br />that dissolves before our eager eyes.<br /><br />Janice Windle<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/winter-poems-dreaming-of-a-white-christmas/
