First Snow in Sheffield

Weathernews | 18.11.2004 21:29 | Sheffield

On the evening of November 18th, Thursday, first snow in Sheffield.
This is a celebration poem.

Such is the snow
so white that it burns your hands
your burnt white hands in a shroud
a silver shawl for witches
while wizards dance:
they like all kinds of dancing
if flakes keep silently falling
making them scream loud screams
of joy as wild as nature

They keep dancing so silently
like furtive terrorists
disturbing traffic& all kinds of transport
but using your feet under a sky
for once turned our accomplice
in the crime of pure joy

Such is the snow
where white witches burn their ivory hands
where dark wizards scream their loud screams of joy
a silver coffin for automobiles
such is snow: its anti-social behaviour
will not be punished
children's merriness will not be punished

disturbing traffic& all kinds of transport
but using your feet under a sky
for once turned our accomplice

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cool poem

18.11.2004 23:45

What a wonderful poem, and remember they can't charge us for snow, yet!

fun in the snowman!

snow?? in Sheffield?

19.11.2004 00:20

in these days of global woarming? shurely shome mishtake ...

brrr ...

First snow - Well ..No

19.11.2004 08:10

First snow in Sheffield?!..mmmm, well..no. First snow since the last snow, maybe.
Has anyone noticed that, with the slightest drop of snow/frost in Sheffield, the transport system/infrastructure becomes gridlocked?(Answer..- Oh, YES, you mean like EVERY year, every time that it snows) On Gnasher, on vixen.....
Father Rudolph

Smiley Steve

Yeah but remember there's no snow in Africa

19.11.2004 09:38

Give is yer fucking money!

'cos theres no crops growing or rivers either...

pointed

global warming - local cooling

19.11.2004 12:55

no idea if snow in yorkshire in november (not all that surprising!) is anything to do with it, but just so you know, one of the key predictions of anthropogenic climate change is that the warming ocean current known as the gulf stream is liable to shift, leaving us in northern europe with a climate more like other lands at this latitude - places like newfoundland, sakhalin, parts of siberia...

brrr!

zzz

erm snow make images like this..

19.11.2004 15:05

http://image.lowtech.org/snow

goto

http://image.lowtech.org/snow

images from 2002 at morehall bolsterstone north of sheffield now thats snow..

are you that botherd?
Homepage: http://peace.lowtech.org

thank you readers...

20.11.2004 01:57

Thank you dear readers for your comments, suggestions for future inspiration, great pictures from peace.lowtech...

Creative commons idea: several small poems portraying & describing brief encounters with sheffield's extraordinary persons like ourselves... on buses... in the street...pictures will be needed as well...

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