Watch as the landscape is buried in snow
white, powdery, inconsequential flakes
swirling across tall hills and deep valleys.
Trees vanish - the whole world obscured in white.

See how temperatures drop to nothing
as animals, once-green plants, and people
flee, scattered like last season's leaves in the wind.
Escape the blizzard, or risk being trapped.

Winter's frosty blanket traps people here
with their itchy red sweaters, roaring fires,
their small mugs of steaming hot chocolate,
and their own minds ... Spring is all they desire.

Soon they get their wish for growing green grass,
as winter's white fades like night to sunrise.