Take our snow, please

yesterday
view from Hillcrest Park, past the witch head apple trees,
towards the Place where Thunder Birds Nest

today
the patch where birds nest beside the Canada Games Complex.

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,

Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,

Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air

Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven…
from “The Snow-Storm” by Ralph Waldo Emerson


woe-be-gone hydrangea heads, snow-covered in my garden


a peek from my front steps. It's an illusion. The wind is relentless.

Take Our Snow Please by jim foulk

As out the window,
I look, more snow today,
have only one thing to say,
take our snow please.

Six week-ends straight,
snow, snow every where,
have only one thing to say,
take our snow please, today.

So much snow, so much cold,
snow in the streets, snow in the yard,
snow on the car, snow on my shoe,
have only one thing to say,

take our snow please, we don't know what to do.
Winter, oh winter please end,
all of this snow, we don't really want it,
snow falling, flakes dropping
have only one thing to say,
take our snow please, don't delay.