Hosanna!

Nature's moody truculence has
dissipated, she has powdered the
face of the world in a whirling 
blizzard of peevishness and now
presents with the blush of a winter
day of surpassingly benign beauty.
This day dawned as peacefully
forgiving as yesterday's polar rage
scathed an unprepared world. Now,
the sky is an artist's delight, blissfully
washed in watercolour blue, the
beaming sun sparking the splendour
 of flakes loosened by its warmth and a
friendly breeze to tumble in lazy
freefall from trees heaped and 
humped with the lofty snow that 
the day before obscured the
landscape, swallowing all in the
maw of a glowering, threatening
storm of wretched malediction.