WeatherBound

True, this is a day of exquisite 
winter beauty, the sun sailing its
cauldron of fire against the
unblemished azure of a winter sky's
oceanic endlessness illuminating
the landscape's most recent
abundance of scintillating snow
a vision of wintry perfection. 
But beware to venture within
the placid depths of this day
deceptive in its  serenity
for weather is to be reckoned with
in its unforgiving frigid depths
plumbing deep Arctic chill, a
coalition of dread morbid threat
fortified by the fierce interaction
of an ill-meaning wind whose blasts
of icy breath stalks death, from
huddled wild creatures to oblivious
humankind failing precautions.