The Mountain Fastness

The mountains pinnacle the sky,
thrusting aeries of fierce-eyed eagles
toward scudding clouds. The placidly
vast bulk of the earth-squatting giants
send thin vapours of mist rising to meet
the clouds pierced by the summits,
dank and immobile. A long shudder
of silence has replaced the roaring
reverberations of thunder, the
mountains morose under the weight
of the icy barrage of relentlessly
repetitive downpours. A sullen assault
on the mountains' sovereign rule...
the elements of stolid geology sustaining
dignity spiting the impulsive strategy 
of nature's persistent weather machine.