Frost temporarily preserves
The landscape in fine sugar dust:
A lustful feast.
Crusted tufts of wind whipped grasses
And rusted busts of proud seedpods,
Languish in a spangled frozen sea.
On rough textured tracks, puddles
Like mystical misted mirrors,
Creak and crack as sunshine
Seeps through apricot pillows
And weeping trees.
The dogs and I thoroughly enjoyed our frosty world of spangled surprises, apricot skies and mystical mirrors which creaked as we walked through our local countryside in rural Bedfordshire. Captured in every breath and every step this temporarily preserved moment was truly magical. Enjoy.
Lavender Moon: Artist, Poet and Lover of Nature 
I love your word choice, most especially, “rusted busts of proud seedpods”.
Thanks Brenda. That one is fun and great to say out loud! 🙂
As all the best language is. 🙂 I’m trying to write picture books, so I appreciate short but perfect phrases.
You have a great imagination Brenda, I bet you really enjoy writing them. However people don’t realise how difficult picture books are to write. Good luck! 🙂 🙂
They are hard, and I’m struggling to make them as good as I can in under 400 words! LOL Yikes!
Very tricky. Have you tested out your books on children? You may get ideas as to how to go forward as you read out the story. Or possibly write for a different age group? 🙂
Good advice, and yes, have done, will do. Do you write for kids?
I wrote for kids when studying writing and publishing at uni and have a couple of books that I am yet to finish. There’s always so much to do! Good luck!
Absolutely! And thanks!
beautiful!! especially the one with the background of clouds!!! the branches just jump out!
Thank you Cybele. I love the frost especially when the sunshine and interesting cloud formations make everything so magical. 🙂
yes!
Great photos – those clouds are amazing
Thanks Raewyn. They were. Sometimes the skies are surreal. 🙂
Wonderful poem, Such a lovely share of your frosty morning walk… Love and Blessings.. Enjoy your weekend.. Hugs Sue xxx
Thank you Sue. Enjoy your weekend too. Let’s hope we see the sun. Hugs xxx
I shall be out walking 🙂 come rain or shine.. I need to just be outside 🙂 Enjoy my friend.. xxxx
I hope you enjoy your walks Sue. 🙂 There was an amazing sunset tonight and the birds were singing. It was very peaceful. :-):-) xxxx
Yes here too in the morning spectacular sunrises.. I feel the Sun or lets say the Earth has wobbled a little more than usual for the Sun is lower than its usual position.. creating these wonderful spectacles . Have you noticed the Sun appearing Lower??
Good morning Sue. I hope you enjoyed your nature walks over the weekend. 🙂 🙂 xxIt was so mild here and it was so nice to hear the little birds twittering in the hedgerows and swooping about over the fields. There are many fieldfare’s about. I have noticed that the sun appears much lower than usual in the sky. In Scotland it was always much lower but here it is very low. I agree with you about the earth wobbling, it is very disconcerting.