A sunny cardinal in the tall, snowy evergreen tree <br />Wore a shining coat the shade of red berries so joyfully. <br />While I looked dreamily outdoors towards the small, white, <br />Wintry woods <br />I wished for summer days where pine boughs had donned cottony hoods. <br />Suddenly then the brilliant cardinal all at once took flight <br />With feathered wings opened up and a flying path, very bright. <br />A quiet wonderland for all lasted in powdery white. <br />The world beckoned with shimmery hands and its silvery might.<br /><br />Gayle Sweeney<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-cardinal-in-winter/
