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Yup, It Snows Every Year
L.L. here, with Random Acts of Poetry. Remembering a comment made by agent Colleen Lindsay on Twitter. “Every year, people all across America seem astonished to discover that it snows in the winter.”
I laughed when I read that. She’s right of course. We love to talk (and tweet) about snow as if it were a complete surprise. Which is kind of silly.
When I stopped chuckling though, I decided there’s something wonderful about our astonishment. Like children, we meet the snow days with inexplicable joy (unless we are the shovelers of the family… well, okay, I am, and I’m remarkably okay with the situation. It gives me time to breathe, daydream, marvel at this odd miracle.)
If we let our childlike sides come alive, why, yes, we celebrate… another year… where it has snowed in winter.
Today, I celebrate the child in Laura, by featuring her poem “First Snow”.
first snow
comes soft
a mist of
winter’s breath
laid gently
down
cradles all
earth
mumbles in sleep
beneath chilly cover
and rolls
over
to resume
quietly spinning
through time.
All RAP Participants
Kelly’s Un-Conversation
Monica’s White and Made Known to Me
Maureen’s A Three-Part Christmas Story and Art Lecture 101
Cindy’s In the purifying flames…
Fred’s The Past Presents the Future
Glynn’s Shadows of Dawn, Like Smoke
Diane Walker’s It was an offensive apology (scroll down in the comment box at Seedlings)
LL’s On Belleview Avenue
Erica's Heat
Join us in the Culture Section next week with Sam Van Eman. RAP will resume the following week. Check Sam’s post for the RAP prompt. And remember to drop your poem post link in my comment box at Seedlings in Stone, so I don't miss you.
Snow Tree photo by Ann Voskamp. Used with permission. Post by L.L. Barkat.
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