OMG - it's more than 14 lines - why did I do that - two sonnets? Maybe it should be I & II, like everything else is with me.

Hmmm -- I do see the acrostic --- but not the sonnet? But I like it anyway  ~smile~ 

Norm

SIDEREAL SNOWFALL - POETICAL HOWL

Silent is night 'neath star-spackled heavens
In tandem, earth reels with the galaxy. 
Daughters of the north hearth shiver; husbands
engage strong sons at cuts of fallen trees.
Roaring fires render winter's cruelty 
essentially helpless. In plaintiff call,
a lone wolf howls its song, 'cross the snowy 
limbo of dreams, like life in a glass ball. 


Sleep comes easy out there in the woodlands, 
'neath eiderdown and old pine; big cities 
of the world seem nothing more than craven 
waxwork, destined to poison minds - dis-ease 
for the lonely heart - tempest for the naive 
adolescents who yearn for bright lights, all 
lingering at the edge of a lazy
limbo of dreams, like life in a glass ball. 


Pander me not with the palaverin'
on all of the latest amenities
enshrined in the suburbs, the exurbs and
tenpenny bullfeather bureaucracies.
I would, if given my druthers or leave,
choose to be right out there under the all
absorbing awe, this star-tangled hazy
limbo of dreams, like life in a glass ball.


Hearken the call to the northland, take ease
on a down-feathered bed. As the snow falls,
we shall turn, in tune with the galaxy's
limbo of dreams, like life in a glass ball. 

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