These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

White as the Snow

Cotton balls floating and twirling in air.
Lighting en masse on a tree.
Quilting the earth, transfixed in a stare.
Lifting the heart to be free.

Children are forming great clouds as they speak.
Shiv'ring in parkas wrapped tight.
The winter remains on landscapes most bleak,
reflecting the blinding sunlight.

Sunglasses making us see once again,
peering through swirling white fluff.
A playground 'twill be when youthful the grin,
'til the chill makes the throat sore and rough.

The Giver of light, Reliever of heat,
restores us through the chill of the day.
The warmth of the heart in the joy, that we meet
lifts to soar through the snowflake display.

by Jay O'Toole
on May 15th, 2020