Snow Joy Laura Bruno Lilly ©2020
I don’t want to gaze upon its sparkly freshness.
I don’t want to observe.
I don’t want to talk about it or take pictures of its transformative effect upon the common everyday landscape.
I don’t want to sit in warmth and take in the frosty view through my studio picture window.
I want to leap and dive and splash about.
I want to be in it.
A delightful poem that invites one to go and play outside. 🙂
p.s. Thank you so much for taking time to visit my blog, I appreciate your comment, too!
High praise from a poetess such as yourself…thank you for stopping by, Khaya.
I love the poem and the little gif with it! It recently snowed here and it is like -2 below in Colorado but I am trying to embrace this part of winter (smile). Your poem was a perfect thing to read while I sip my tea and try to stay warm today!
…plus snuggling in all your cozy quilts!
Delightful, Laura. I love your poem, and your spirit.
Thanks, Jennie! Happy Valentine’s Day to you and the Aqua Room and of course, Gloria.
Love it! Your poem and the joyful woman.
Sweet release…ya know?
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Here on the prairies, where I make home, we’ve been under a “polar vortex” for a week and more, temperatures at 20 below and then some with the wind. Even though it’s snowing, not the nicest day to be playing in it, but next week, when a new system blows in, and it warms up, I’ll be cross county skiing.
Oh I **am** envious. I haven’t been cross country skiing in like forever. Enjoy!
Thanks for stopping by, Katharine.
I am more of an observer of snow, but I can appreciate the beautiful poem and your reveling in the fresh, frosty landscape. 🙂
…my deep desire to revel in the snow…there’s no snow slated for South Carolina during this current wave of storms crossing the Midwest and ones sweeping through from Texas to the mid-Atlantic states.
-sigh-
Thanks for the kudos, though!
I can appreciate the feeling of missing out on something. But then I remember how much I hate the cold, so I’m not sure I could dance in it. But I do remember doing so as a young pup. Stay limber, Laura! 🙂
I like the cold when I can control it…or at the very least know that after a long romp in the snow I’d be coming back to a warm & cozy home and a mug of hot cocoa! HA! Yep, kinda glorifying it all, aren’t I?
I like your attitude. Follow your heart, just make sure to wear mittens and boots, ok?
Somehow I knew you’d be the one to feel the attitude in my little poem. Yessiree, Ms Bean!
Comment No 2. I only read every one else’s comments after I had posted mine. I am sorry you are missing out on the snow, but glad to know you are dancing imaginatively
Imagination looms larger in these days of the Pandemic and I intend on not losing that life-line!!!!
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Lovely, precise poem about experiencing the real thing, Laura.
Trust that if it did snow for you you did go out and do a happy dance. Ha.
These days – if it happens, I will dance!
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It’s like Autumn leaves that gather themselves in heaps – be scooted through, to be picked up and flung into the sky to rain down upon ones head, to watch birds scattering and looking for a delicacy, to watch them decay bit by bit on the sidewalks or the parklands
that’s because I don’t have any snow either to twirl about in…
Yessss! More my favorite thing to do than snow dancing. And much more available in different climates!
Thanks for stoppng by, Catherine.
Love the poem, Laura. Wonderful spirited way to enjoy nature! <3 <3 <3
It doesn't snow here, so I have to be content with childhood memories of playing in the snow. I have to be satisfied with splashing barefoot in puddles, which I still love doing! 🙂 Have a great day!
Ah yes, puddles. I re-lived that back when the kids were little. It seems if there was a puddle to stomp in during a walk, they’d find it!
Speaking for myself (and maybe a few others) , I really need to let the child in me out a lot more often. Great poem, Laura! 🙂
I have a sticky note on the wall behind my desk that I put up at the beginning of the Pandemic: “Laura has permission to play!” Thought I’d share that with you, another Laura.
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Love it! 🙂
We have some snow outside and I will go and play after about a 20-degree rise. I want to take some photos.
Ohhhh Jane! I can’t wait to see the fruits of your Snow Romping labor!
For forth and enjoy a snowy frolic!
It’s funny how many think the gif is me and the poem is my current ‘reality’. In truth, like I mentioned to Joe in sunny AZ:
“I wish I could…the gif is not me and the poem reflects my own yearnings while the rest of the country is swathed in snow!”
HA!!!
Didn’t mean to ‘fool you’ but I guess I ‘gotchya’ anyways!
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? … and that’s OK with me.
I admire your ability to write poetry! However, my memory of snow is of living in “darkest Northern Maine” where we got 150″ a year, so I’m done with it.
Oh I don’t think I could do the ‘arctic winter night’ type thing – snow or no snow. But still, Maine sounds like a cool place to live…
Honestly, there were a lot of good things about it.
It snowed in Phoenix recently, so rare an event that the 5th largest city in the states has no plows. The winter of 1946 I endured in Fairbanks cured me of any desire to frolic in it ever after. Glad to see you romp
in joy.
I wish I could…the gif is not me and the poem reflects my own yearnings while the rest of the country is swathed in snow! Fairbanks, eh? You’ve been far from your roots for much of your life! You never cease to amaze!
Love your post, Laura! ? Sheer unadulterated joy of snow days! Snow has that effect on me … wanting to dash out and just dance around with sheer joy. Luckily I’ve had the chance a couple of times this year and the best times are when snowflakes fall upon my face and melt with a shivery tingle!
Sounds delightfully carefree!
Some of my best memories are from playing in the snow as a kid. Thanks for that reminder, Laura.
Me too – and the snowcaves in the back yard…amazing we didn’t get clobbered!
Meanwhile, I’ll be frolicking in our sunshine… it’s much easier to frolic when not bundled up ❄️?
Quite true!
Please frolic in the snow for me!
I wish I could…but my imagination is larger than these snowless limitations! HA! To be clear, I’m in snowless SC brazenly longing for those snowy days of home!
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I’m in Texas and all excited that we will have a week of winter starting on Monday. I have not used a coat in years! We had “snow” last month and I went out to do my interpretive snow dance. I think we had 2 inches of snow.☺
Oh please – do a happy dance in my name!
We are expecting icy weather, so I certainly will dance in your name.
That prospect brings a smile to my face…let me know how it goes, Chela.
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Leap in it! Enjoy, Laura! May God bless you!! Yay!!! ?
In my dreams…no snow machines here!
Perhaps you’ll do a bit of leaping for me by proxy?
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I well remember that feeling when I was a kid. As soon as school was canceled, we were all outdoors and sledding on the hill!
Such a sweet release!