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Jan.23.2025
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Ivory Flakes
Oh, lovely snowflakes,
from billowy clouds,
plump with expectation,
you break free and come tip toeing lightly
on tiny feet, gliding and dancing,
through the air in crisp December.
You travel through ether
uncaged and free and drop down
littering the earth’s expanse.
you keep falling and collapsing
one on another, and lie huddled
as a white massive heap-
sometimes landing thick as round balls
sometimes as the light dusting
of talcum, soft and pulverized.
The earth wears your white mantle with pride.
Those of you come first,
get vanquished instantly.
but when the real exodus begins,
you accumulate and heap,
inch by inch and foot by foot,
becoming a formidable force,
covering the earth in a thick white blanket.
In day light, you wink like twinkling stars.
at night what delight it is to watch you,
gleaming in moonlight, with your white hair,
grizzled into grey and ivory.
Folded in your dazzling beauty,
and enjoying the silent lullaby,
the world wrapped in cold stillness,
goes to sweet slumber.
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