Ice collared rocks in a cobalt blue stream
Cold colored ripples within the creeks flow
Crystalline fingers in filigreed dream 
Winter’s residuals of chilled falling snow


Waters creating caricatures of dance
Floating white collars waving anew
Winsome and magical at their first glance
Simply dissolving just like morning dew

I took this photo at Minnehaha Creek. The water was freezing but flowing strong. The ice around the stones reminded me of medieval collars the Dutch gentlemen wore. They were called ruffs or ruffled collars.
This poem consists of two abab rhymed quatrains in Dactyl meter. Dactyl meter is a trimetered foot with a hard-soft-soft cadence resulting in a waltz-like flow. So the lines are typically 9 syllables , but 11 is acceptable. If you close a line of dactyls with a final hard beat it is known at dactylic pentameter. I left off punctuation purposefully to allow the lines to float on their own.

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