Winter Tree
Unsheltered now it stands, A skeleton, exposed, That barely comprehends The seasons life has closed. Yet, there’s an opening — The promise that stirs spring, Hidden, intimating The gift that faith will bring....
M. Ali Lakhani, KC, the founding editor of Sacred Web, is a lawyer and author. Raised in England, he lives in Canada, and writes on traditional metaphysics, modernity and literature.
Unsheltered now it stands, A skeleton, exposed, That barely comprehends The seasons life has closed. Yet, there’s an opening — The promise that stirs spring, Hidden, intimating The gift that faith will bring....
Sky falls, seeding earth Soundlessly with light. Stasis, till spring’s birth, Incandesces sight. Till then, nothing‘s not Beneath stillness still. The mind’s in her cot Dreaming of until When tendrils first shoot Fresh in golden ray, And from holy root Breath blows into clay....