I watch the snowfall
Like flakes of diamonds
Drifting down from the sky
Swaying freely in the gentle breeze.
Snow fills the meadow
Until a soft layered
Diamond-crusted covering
Hides the dried grass of last fall.
It is beautiful
lying white in the moon glow
Softly shaded with withered limbs
Of weeping willow shadows
And the orange glow of a fire
Reflecting on the window.
R. Olaf Erich is a German-born American poet residing in Green Bay Wisconsin with his furry family, Shadow and Skyler.
