Saturday, February 9, 2013

Saturday Shorts--Weekend Words

 Winter landscape design

Today's post is inspired by winter storm Nemo . . .

Snow

A poem by Frederick Seidel

 

Snow is what it does.
It falls and it stays and it goes.
It melts and it is here somewhere.
We all will get there.
     
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This poem originally appeared in the September 2012 issue of Poetry magazine, published by the Poetry Foundation.

 

Catherine

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 9, 2013 at 6:43 PM

    ooh, I like this poem (: With the blizzard that just took place, here and all.

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  2. Catherine @ Book Club LibrarianFebruary 10, 2013 at 10:25 AM

    All that snow had to be acknowledged...wanted to do so in a positive way...

    Thanks for following...I'm following you as well!

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  3. Kimberly @ Caffeinated ReviewerFebruary 10, 2013 at 2:07 PM

    Nice and perfect for this weekend!

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  4. Catherine @ Book Club LibrarianFebruary 10, 2013 at 3:27 PM

    Thanks, Kim...hope this storm was the last of the season, otherwise you'll be reading more poems in my posts :-)

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