In a Wintering Forest

Deep in the wintering desolate forest, rests
Under the carpet of leaves, o’er treetop crest
The promising pulse of life patiently beats
Foliage sleeps till season’s retreat
Abiding nature’s behest

Snowy trees glow white in a milky fest
Mist rises up in swirls, quietly expressed
Cracks of rimy sorrow tiptoe on leafy pleats
Deep in the wintering desolate forest,

Winter sunlight slides on boughs, in nests
Warming each fibre, each fine veinlet
Nourishes life in calm discreet
And nature blooms in her eternal quest
Of joyous hatching, sprouting, crackling blest
Deep in the wintering desolate forest
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Kokila Gupta

Born in a literary environment, brought up amid mountains and plains, Kokila Gupta nurtured a deep love for nature and simplicity.Her prose, poetry, musings or Haiku, all express her natural affinity towards life in mundane spontaneity. She is a lecturer by profession, wayfarer by passion and a writer by choice.