First Snow

This week brought winter's first snow, reminding me of two favorite poems.

Snowflakes by Linda Copp

Snowflakes spill from heaven's hand

Lovely and chaste as smooth white sand.

A veil of wonder laced in light,

Fall gently on a winter's night.

Graceful beauty raining down

Giving magic to the lifeless ground.

Each snowflake like a falling star,

Smiling beauty that's spun afar.

Snowflakes spill from heaven's hand,

Lovely and chaste as smooth white sand.

'Til earth is dressed in a robe of white

Unspoken poem the hush of night.

Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie

Let us walk in the white snow

In a soundless space;
With footsteps quiet and slow,
At a tranquil pace,
Under veils of lace.

I shall go shod in silk,

You in wool

White as white cow's milk,

More beautiful

Than the breast of a gull.

We shall walk through the still town

In a windless peace;

We shall step upon white down,
Upon silver fleece
Softer than these.

We shall walk in velvet shoes;
Wherever we go
Silence falls like dews
On white silence below.
We shall walk in the snow.