Poetry (part 1) - Snow

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As I'm looking out my window this bright January day, I see a blanket of snow.

Thinking analytically, snow's fundamental element is the snowflake. To the eye of the beholder, snowflakes may be beautiful. But are they unique?

As seen in the clip below, science and history has much to say about snow and snowflakes.

(reference: https://youtu.be/fUot7XSX8uA )

But chance and physics do not take away the snowflake's fleeting beauty. Often it's hard to find the words that describe the wonder of nature. And that's when the arts, such as poetry, take off.

Almost thirty years ago, I wrote a poem about winter, pondering a scene, such as what I'm looking at now:

Snow

Clean and bright

The winter scene

Pearly snow 

Is everywhere seen 

Yet the snow 

Is still not pure 

Formed from dust 

Like mortals, here 

Dust is woven

Crocheted to snow

And robes the world

From heaven, below 

Frozen and still

The sleepy land

Under snowy blankets

Till Spring, again 

S. K. Smith 

(c) November 1986

So starts another thread - Poetry. 

And on this poetic note, may I leave with this thought about the Creator:

For He saith to the snow,

Be thou on earth; ...

Job 37:6 (KJV)

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Other posts on this subject:

ELM (part 3) - St. Crispin's Day Battles in English History and Literature (2013)

Touching the Face of God ... (2011) 

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