A Veil Of White

• Charlotte Nichol, Grade 6, Scotch Oakburn College - Junior School
• Poetry
• 2009

Finalist in the 'Xtreme Read 2009' competition

The mist rolled in throughout the night,
Shrouding the land in a veil of white,
An impenetrable barrier of relentless might,
Blocks out the struggling, pre-dawn light.

Shadows reign upon the ground,
The hills;dark, shifting, haunting mounds,
Through paddocks full of slumbering sheep,
The chilling fingers of frost does creep.

The farmer's lambs out in the fold;
Shivering in the deathly cold,
But inside in my bed I sleep,
Where foggy cold dare not seep.