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Saturday, February 27, 2016

SNOW REASON!


SNOW REASON


Flakes of snow are drifting down
Upon the earth that once was brown.

Slowly falling  soft and thick
Some are slow and some are quick.

Some fly upwards and then fall down
Some fly sideways upon the ground.

A coat of white from a painter's brush
Could not cover like Nature's touch.

Piling high  in icy swirls
Making sculptures of shining swirls.

White as white but not clearly so
As sun's shadows grey the snow

Would it be so bad to know
That rainbow colours could be snow?

Red in ditches. Orange on walks
Indigo  on every block.

Trees all covered in Yellow's shine
Violet rivers would look Devine!

Rocks of Orange and snowdrifts Blue
Snow banks could be of every hue.

Snow ploughs blowing rainbows 'round
Covering winter's frozen ground.

If only snowflakes were coloured bright
The sky of snowfalls would bring delight!






Like the feathers

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

A BAD GUEST

We were surprised by a  late evening guest in the yard last night. 
We hadn't seen it arrive mainly due to its  imperceptible cloak of grey. 
 
It arrived in an ominous and heavy silence bit by bit, inch by inch.
 Before we knew it it was here, in the yard, at the threshold, looking through the windows, tracking in the door.

 Like the true bad guest it  dominated the rest of the evening's conversation. 
 We asked each other ' When will it go?' 
 'How come no one told us it was on its way?'
'If we had only known , we would have been somewhere where it couldn't come."

And like the true bad guest ,  it will stay longer than desired, make a bunch of extra work, and leave a big mess when it goes.