Best Poem About a Snowy Day

Gazing at this lovely scene in the front of my house on New Year's Day would inspire most anybody to want to write. The poem below is one I  love to use with students as a model when I am encouraging them to describe a certain type of day..... such as a snowy day.


Awakening to Snow
Blades of light slide under my eyelids
and prise them open to discover
softness.
This is whisper day, muffled in deep down
of eiderdown snow, day of
those other echoes and shadows on frosted window-panes
that pass by furtively, wondering.
Today is hushed blue day of nothing, of
empty footprints where feet were,
of absence.
Today adrift from all the gongs of time,
suspended on the feather of your
silent white breath
-Sylvia Kantaris

 

photos taken 1/1/10