Arctic Dawn
faint first light
on eastern skyline
pale glow rising
under indigo –
still firmament
with crescent moon
turns iridescent
peach and pink and blue
snow banked on road
ploughed clear on pack-ice
dry brown furrows
slushed by vehicle tyres
headlights tail-lights
glittering white and red –
man-made stir in
landscape frozen dead
pastel tint
sub-zero spangle
diamond-glinting
sun on icicle –
dusk at daybreak
violet rose and gold
soft-toned display
ferocious burning cold
exquisite frost-formed
arctic dawn –
human eye looks on
ignored or scorned
late low and transient
November sun –
colouring calmly
slumbering sinking gone