The Clarity of Snow

There in your eyes
I see a blizzard of emotion,
we are blinded by life’s persistent gales
so we huddle beneath warm woolen memories

and wait for the sun to push its bright eye
between the clouds and blink its glistening halo
across the soft fresh snow of possibilities,
it is then I see your face, once again, for the first time.

Reviews

[Woody]

superb metaphors and tender write. a gem of a poem.
blizzard of emotion
life's persistent gales
warm woolen memories
snow of possibilities

those are going into my personal dictionary.

[icelandicblue]

Thank you Woody. I am honored you enjoyed the wording in this poem. ; )

[Alfred Kukitz]

Like Elliot, to go back to the same place and know it for the first time. Beautiful!

[icelandicblue]

I love that quote:

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." T S Eliot and yet we as humans can experience that feeling if we are open to it. Thanks so much Alfred.

[Alfred Kukitz]

We had some playground reunions back in the '90s. I felt it there!

[Rita L. Sev]

soft fresh snow of possibilities...

We long for summer's sunshine, but we forget the memories of snow. Love this, Blue.

[icelandicblue]

There is a particular beauty and a sense of newness in winter that summer, although so much more comfortable and pleasurable, cannot quite match in the descriptive realm. Thanks Rita.

[Confuser]

The metaphors you use; just brilliant writer. When I come here, I know a poet rests, contented assured, loved by many. You make me want to write - you have that something, some of us will never have, never reach. I just love your writing, and the tone, is always yours, I recognize it like the singer of the song on the radio, the perfect sound resonating outward to all, to me. Thank you again. Wow, that's really my language, like a teenager, blown away.

[icelandicblue]

Winter is a metaphorical wonderland. Thanks Confuser.

[Confuser]

You are right.........................Thank you. Dale

[jacob erin-cilberto]

nice metaphor used here..."the fresh snow of possibilities"

love the last line also...something so blinding about snow, but at the same time, that paradox of seeing clearly what isn't all that clear.

[icelandicblue]

Unsullied snow holds so many possibilities. Thanks so much jacob.

[MsJewel]

it is then I see your face, once again, for the first time....
So beautifully sweet. This reminds me of my daughter - I look at her beautiful face, at the way her eyes light up when she looks at me and I know - anything is possible.
I love your poem. Going in my favs.

100/100 glistening snowflakes
:) Julie

[icelandicblue]

Ah, that you Julie. A child most definitely helps us all believe anything is possible.

[Linda Marie Van Tassell]

It's amazing how the snow has a way of making the world seem clean and new. I love the juxtaposition of using the cold snow to represent the warmth of new possibilities. We do indeed huddle beneath warm woolen memories; but if that gets us through the storms of life, we are all the richer for it. Lovely!

[icelandicblue]

So nice to see you Linda. Thanks for your lovely comment.

[Baby Ricochet]

I haven't seen snow in a long a*s time. It's pretty, when your inside a heated house in a warm robe drinking coffee looking out the window at it. If you actually have to do s**t in it, it seriously blows. I guess that's why I moved to Florida. That and I don't own a robe.

[icelandicblue]

Snow is spectacular if you only have to enjoy it. I don't think there is a more zen moment than being the first one outside in the morning, before the plows and the commuters. It is the one time I truly feel centered.

[Einstein Noodle]

mmm how beautiful ... i want to tuck myself up in my snow cave ... such romance Icey! nice one .. "...once again, for the first time" .. just beautiful!
E.

[icelandicblue]

They don't call me icelandicblue for nothing!Thanks Einstein.

[Einstein Noodle]

:) .........
E.

[emmajoy]

Perhaps.. maybe, we just need someone either there, facing, or, in the shadows... because it's knowing you're not alone is what matters most for both of you, of course.

The sweetest sentiment written very honestly.

[icelandicblue]

I appreciate that Emma. Thank you.