Snowstorm In December

Snowstorm on winter evening

Air full of light and snow 

Mind feels as though it's dreaming

As ground reclines below

Tree branches just like rivers

From their eternal source

Leading through air that shivers

Into the sea of earth

Branches overlaid with snow -

Fairy tales, like Renoir's

Paintings - together flow -

Past flakes that shine like stars!

Snow flakes here fly illumined

With light from a streetlamp

While from the sky exhuming

Winter night's cold and damp

As it falls on the ground

Under the evening sky

Makes bed of fluff and down

Where the trees' shadows lie.

Snow flakes on a December

In their chaotic flight

Make an orchestral chamber

Where music of the night

Resonates true and clear

And bursts into a song

Where passion, hope and fear

Carry the heart along -

Carry, to truths revealing!

Carry, to joys sublime!

Carry each Thought and Feeling

Into the heart of Time

And in eternal Now

In which resides true Peace 

Make Essence merge with Tao

And bring eternal Bliss.

Snow, the exalted water!

Substance of life on high!

Earth's truth and heaven's daughter!

When brought into the sky

Turns into perfect matter

Each one unique, yet all

Crystalline, and they scatter

Everywhere as they fall!

Give us the truth of heaven,

Water congealed in height!

Take us to where you've traveled

On this December night -

Give us what you have mastered -

Place where the truth of life

Turns into alabaster

Crystals! To us arrive,

Each one unique, each real -

Perfect by its own code -

Soulful, incorporeal -

From its sublime abode 

Falling upon the ground

And swirling on its course -

Carry your truths profound

And in them bathe the earth.

Water to heights exalted -

To place all poets seek -

Turns into truth embodied -

Each perfect and unique

Each beautiful and tender

And each reflecting light

Each to completeness rendered

And in it bathing Night

As snowflakes shimmer dancing

In chilly winter air

Heaven in them romances

Earth away from despair:

Snowflakes dress trees with beauty

And carpet breathing earth

Onto which is exuded

Truth of the soul's rebirth:

Water reaches the clouds

And there becomes attained,

And then falls on the ground

As snowflakes or as rain

To hide it in the cold

Or feed it in the heat

And the life's truth enfold

In rain, snow, ice and sleet.

Through every time and season

Through every night and day

Passion combined with reason -

Purpose combined with play -

Makes the accomplished matter

Which with the truth of soul -

The Noumenal unfettered

From the Phenomenal -

Brings the embodied splendor

And feeds what may exist

That on the earth is rendered

This divine painter's feast.

Total as life is total,

And unique, one and all -

Both anecdotal

And experimental -

Subjective and objective

Yin and yang, age and youth,

Passive and overactive

Make manifest the truth!

All elements combining

Makes what did not exist

Dualities refining

Where they like gene strands twist

Until they are most splendid

And then they all combine -

Finest and most candid -

Into the truth divine.

There passion turns to matter

And becomes absolute

There preconceptions shatter

And truths untruths refute

There Life strives for existence

Amid the strains of Time

There Seed strives through resistance -

There all becomes sublime!

There water reaches air:

There all is true and wise

There is true beauty - there -

There is no room for lies!

There soul becomes embodied

And then the ground it flails

As though overloaded -

Which its new task entails -

Here to become its most - 

and All of its gifts impart:

Unique and universal

In body, mind, and heart!

Upon an earth-shaped canvas

Painting sublime designs

In world we have, that has us,

Making the most of time:

That, being made of water,

And crafted out of ice,

Makes of the time's iota

What will transcend all times:

There, to complete life's substance!

In snow or in rain

And as the snow flake dances -

There, let the soul remain

To consummate the coming

And inspire yet-to-be

And, when the rain comes drumming,

Then let the winter flee!

Then let the sun come beaming!

Then let the life return!

And until then - be dreaming

During this winter storm!

Snowstorm on winter evening!

Both journey and the goal!

Both giving and receiving!

In you, the human soul!