Lily’s snow
She wished and wished
And watched, praying for flakes
First flutter goose down
Pillow burst flock and flurry
Merry the fall the dance
Silent from starless sky
A spell a spell
A secret spread
Blanket to muffle the land
Then sheen and shine
As diamonds dazzled
Scattered shards
Splintering and crack
Jack Frost with ice at his fingertips
Turning the world to white
Winter night
When the Queen of the Snow flew by
She wished and wished
And watched, praying for flakes
First flutter goose down
Pillow burst flock and flurry
Merry the fall the dance
Silent from starless sky
A spell a spell
A secret spread
Blanket to muffle the land
Then sheen and shine
As diamonds dazzled
Scattered shards
Splintering and crack
Jack Frost with ice at his fingertips
Turning the world to white
Winter night
When the Queen of the Snow flew by
2nd December 2010, Brighton, for Lily with love
From Pam Morris in an email
ReplyDeleteJust read your poem- how lovely and what a lucky girl Lily is to have a granny with the words!
Lily says 'I love the way you capture exactly how I felt about the snow, how desperately I wanted it to come'
ReplyDeleteI can still reach the child in me with this poem, I can even feel excited reading 'first flutter goose down pillow burst flock and flurry'. What a pain I have to be all grown up and struggle to work!! I saw a wonderful snow stag on Minchinhampton common yesterday!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you sense the excitement Jude as that was what inspired me, in Lily. She had such a wonderful couple of 'snow days' from school with her friends and was heart-broken on Saturday morning when it had all suddenly disappeared overnight. I also went back to memories of my Dan who as a child was obsessed by but also very frightened of the Snow Queen. I don't know what a snow stag is- it sounds fabulous!
ReplyDeleteIt was a stag shape made from snow with tree branches for antlers. It was very misty and the stag was a 3D version of a childlike drawing.
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