Gael Stuart

The Silver Sage

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Posted 01/07/2009

Snow Poetry and Prose

By Gael Stuart
A Patch of Old Snow
(Robert Frost, 1874–1963)

There's a patch of old snow in a corner
That I should have guessed
Was a blow-away paper the rain
Had brought to rest.

It is speckled with grime as if
Small print overspread it,
The news of a day I've forgotten--
If I ever read it.

The news of the day for me is fresh snow! I sit on a small chair in front of my glass door, watching the world around me change like the news—and I write snow thoughts:

ONCE UPON A WINTER DAY snow floated gently down from an aluminum-colored sky.
    Huge, lazy flakes, as light as thistledown, landed on the ground and disappeared.
The temperature dropped. The flakes became smaller, faster—tumbling from the heavens like     petals from a crystal bouquet. Millions became a single diamond-dust covering.
Time stood still as the glittering shapes melded into one palette of icy white.
    The elfin creature who personifies crisp, cold, winter weather, Jack Frost, skated over the tree tops, causing them to sway under the burden of their sparkling tiaras.
    All was calm
        All was bright
            All was beauty in winter white.  

I love all the seasons of my world!

By Gael Stuart
The Silver Sage Blog

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