Simple Sunday-Snow Portal 

A walk-about leads to

beckoning branches

teasing me 

with what could be's

No hesitation is made 

I trek on towards

the taunting gap

 curious anticipation surges

Eyes rapidly devour the 

vast vision feast 

encountered as I cross the

snow portal

Hues of blue flows 

to the wide horizon

The Great Lady Lake 

frozen, it appears,

for now

Slippery sheen under foot

yet I go

absorbing images as

brittle wind slices with

chilled air shards

Slick ice shelters

hide secret spaces

Cool milk-glass ice coats

dormant lakescapes

Atop a crest rests

the Diamond Light

the Queen that quietly rules

this crystal kingdom

Awed, I am gratified

that I

  crossed through to blue

CCB

3/11/2015