Beauty in Danger

                                                                         Attribution: Kabelleger/David Gubler
Image: A freight train plowing through snow drift, Norway
Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)

Undulating terrain

Of pure white as far as the eyes could see

In the cool mist of the morning

Blanketing the countryside

But hardened on the tracks

Not burdened lately

By vibrations of the Iron Horse

Now menaced with abundance of snowfall

For the week that was

Of beauty in tranquility

A lone freight train

Plowing through the snow-drift

Speeding and pitting its strength

Through slush and nature’s goodness

A penchant to madness

Volatile in consequence

Imminent danger thrown to the wind

But still insisting on arriving in time

Of ferrying its weight

To reach its destination

Of beauty in responsibility

Risks taken against nature’s rights

Testing man’s prowess in his fight

Of wanting to keep to his schedule

Was it not beautiful?

Written for Fred's  hosting at d’Verse's Poetics: Beauty is Everywhere