A Winter's Reminiscence - Anything Outdoors with Steve

Winter is a season for reflection. It is a time for assessment. As our landscape is transformed by the cold, as the green earth gives way to temporary death-sleep, as the trees raise their skeletal arms into the brisk air, when Lady Winter spreads her bridal gown across the forest floor, and the hush of snow muffles every sound, it is a time for remembrance, a time for hope.

A Winter’s reminiscence is one of deepest sincerity, a poignant and bitter-sweet recollection of our past. Sometimes a walk through the snow is a journey through the recesses of our most cherished memories. Sometimes the tenderness of our rumination is almost more than we can bear. Oft times our reminiscence on a winter day is an examination and cleansing of our soul. Sometimes we are brave enough to face the storm within us. Other times, we face the storm around us, to avoid the turmoil within.

This winter season, we wish you a time of peace and joy. May you find contentment in your winter reflections!

A Snowflake Has Melted in my Eye

Sweet to remember, sad with the years,
Are December evening tidings and cheers
Ringing clearly, bringing out yester morn,
In hazy, snow-falling remembrance born –
A day far too near to be easily dispelled
By a heavy heart so sorrowfully swelled
Like seasons come and gone away again –
Snows fallen and melted to again begin.
Where do you wind, oh, north wind?
Wherein has a soul then sinned
A measure sufficient for a storm like this,
This soft-on-the-forehead-long-evaporated kiss,
Lingering so, as a low-hanging sunset,
Refusing to abide, in dire regret,
To the declaration of the stars
That a shining sun must give way to Mars?
Oh, golden, golden, morning passed away,
Wrapped up and displaced by a dimming day,
A glimmering crimson coal of light,
A summer stream springing into night,
A dream to be taken literally,
Relished and savored liberally,
In a sinking memory painfully setting,
In a weary mind is still begetting.
Oh, how we had our day!
The colors we had before the gray!
Fawns pranced in the warming sun!
Always, life had just begun,
And the succulent softness of youth
Yet to be hardened by truth!
Oh, for a moment more on that grass!
Oh, that time should never pass!
Life is a mysterious device
That turns a blossom into ice,
A sweet flower rising in spring birth,
Then falling fatefully back to earth,
The dew having lost its stake,
Leaving misty minds to quake.
Do not believe that I simply cry.
A snowflake has melted in my eye.

~ Daniel F Mitchell

Background Music by:

Chris Haugen - Fresh Fallen Snow
Night Snow by Asher Fulero
Winter Background music by Takayama Niwel Music provided by Gustune.

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