Downward from heaven in uneven flow
Came tiny flecks of wandering snow
Spasmodic, they skipped as if in a tease,
For Heaven can do all things with ease.
– eab, Nov. ‘07
Posts Tagged ‘snow’
WITH EASE
Posted in Creator or Creation, heaven, nature, philosophy, poem, science, uncategorized, tagged snow, WITH EASE on November 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Cloud 222
Posted in Creator or Creation, heaven, science, uncategorized, tagged clouds under sky gray or cheery blue, dew, mist, moisture comes, rain, sleet, snow on March 31, 2009| Leave a Comment »
As if God had not enough to do (with me and you)
He’s in charge of rain, sleet, snow, mist and dew.
(Moisture comes in ways, anything-but-new)
He’s in charge of cloud “one” and cloud “two twenty-two”
They are all His clouds under sky gray or cheery blue
How complete with me, you, and all else He has to do.
– eab, 3/31/08
Snow
Posted in nature, poem, winter, tagged 1964, and make snow men, BA in Literature, Cincinnati, deep snows, downy as pillow fluff, enjoy it, fine snow, Ohio, perfect individual shape, snow, structure marvelous and crystalline, synonymous, winter on January 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Winter is almost synonymous
With a four letter word: Snow.
It seems that the first cannot be,
Without the other to blow, and blow.
Sometimes it comes down
As downy as pillow fluff,
Nearly as large as pennies and dimes
And, OH! such beautiful “stuff.”
When it lights on your sleeve,
Or your tall hat or coat,
Its structure marvelous and crystalline,
But, ah, Don’t you stroke,
For it will melt soon enough,
From its perfect individual shape,
And another that is now falling
It place, at your attention, will take.
Then there is the fine snow,
As fine as ground flour.
Which so neatly covers the ground
In a short time; maybe an hour.
Of course, there are deep snows,
And long snows and short.
And snows in valleys and hills,
And on mountainous resorts.
But in whatever form or manner it comes,
Each has its purpose to bring.
So use it, enjoy it, and make snow men;
Or go out in the evening a carol to sing. – eab, ’64 NOV
Written while studying for my BA in Literature, Cincinnati, Ohio
Snow Shapes
Posted in poem, winter, tagged Bachelors, branches, Cincinnati, God's Bible School, limb and twig, literature, OH, real life, snow on December 22, 2008| Leave a Comment »
That night the snow came down.
It covered the branches,
But left the bottom brown.
And piled up on limb and twig
Until they looked,
Twice as big
As real life.
It’s “kind-a” funny you know,
What shapes we see,
After a snow. –eab, 12/’64
Written while working on my Bachelors (in literature) at God’s Bible School, Cincinnati, OH.
Man Is a Spirit
Posted in poem, time, uncategorized, winter, tagged 1954, 1970, achievements of man, appear sublime, boot camp, cemetery, eternity's shore, Ft. Lewis, Keith R Bryan, Man is a spirit, mirth, moment and mile, November, Ohio, poem, print, reviewed at a stop, sand, smiles, snow, sorrows, steps we leave, tears, traverse the earth, Washington, West Rushville, wind and wave on November 5, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I’ve noticed one thing as I traverse the earth,
With its tears, and smiles, sorrows, and mirth,
That the steps we leave in snow and sand,
When reviewed at a stop, help us understand
The wanderings and achievements of man.
That man’s acts, though small and erased by time,
For a moment and mile appear sublime;
But wind and wave leave the print no more,
For man is a spirit, on eternity’s shore. -eab, 11/27/70
Written after being somewhat surprised at seeing my on footsteps in the snow in the West Rushville, Ohio cemetery. I had visited the grave of my only brother, Keith R. Bryan, who was killed in boot camp (Ft. Lewis, Washington) in 1954.
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