-- SnowLight --

­­John Herlihy

The stately descent of a great white world,

The humble consent of a stark winter world.

Snow descends from heaven, each of us knows,

Its silence instills lasting peace as the heart glows.

The white frosty world of morning decked in lace,

The mill pond frozen over with its beard of ice.

The sun never did rise up over the earth’s brim,

Trees weighted with the burden of snow’s whim.

Then filling in the sky, a faint glow, a blue haze,

Shining like the Northern Lights as we gaze.

The wind scattered snow devils before the eyes,

And raised white sails that blew in the skies.

Snow light as a lighted city beyond the mountains,

As more snow fell to earth from celestial fountains.

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Copyright © John Herlihy

Monday 28 December 2020