As the Wind Howls--By Ken Allan Dronsfield--United States

As the Wind Howls

Flames reflected within the cat's eye

a glass of spirits await a parched soul

wool socks warming my chilled feet

the hound listens as the wind howls.

Teapot whistles in a shrieking pitch

inside a little cabin on a snowy night

as loneliness wreaks of rumination

a harsh stare from the sleeping cat.

Ink flows smooth on nights like this;

imagination tickles a swirling mind

image of acute emotional darkness

seeking the shadowed voice inside.

whilst the cat naps with one eye open

the mouse creeps on the window sill

the snow shovel falls with a clamor

everyone jumps as the wind howls.

Ken Allan Dronsfield is a published poet who has been nominated for The Best of the Net and 2 Pushcart Awards for Poetry in 2016. His work has been published world-wide in publications throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. Ken loves thunderstorms, and spending time with his cat Willa. Ken's new book, "The Cellaring", a collection of haunting, paranormal, weird and wonderful poems, has been released and is available through Amazon.com. He is the co-editor of the poetry anthology titled, Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze available at Amazon.com. A second anthology, Dandelion in a Vase of Roses will be released around the first of 2017.