Snowhere

By Canonette

Tue, 27 Feb 2018

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4 comments

eerily quiet under our
bright-lit streetlamp
snowpocalypse here
tomorrow will be chaos
all zombie shuffling
living dead stumbling
but in bed alone here
sole snow survivor
this cold dystopia is
blank radiant bliss

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Lovely to see something from

Permalink Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on Tue, 2018-02-27 06:09

Lovely to see something from you again Canonette - the eerie silence of freshly fallen snow is wonderful isn't it. Do you actually have snow? We were supposed to have lots here - in fact they shut all the trains down at ten pm last night, but there's only a very light covering

Thanks insert! Yes, we have a

Permalink Submitted by Canonette on Tue, 2018-02-27 07:21

Thanks insert! Yes, we have a good few inches of snow. I wrote this at 4am, when it was still pristine.

This reader

Permalink Submitted by Ewan on Tue, 2018-02-27 18:31

is weird. I looked at the title and thought "Snow Here", "Sno(w) Where?" and (O My!) "'S no' here". Then I pulled myself together and read the poem. Neat and evocative.
Ewan

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Reminds me of the snow child

Permalink Submitted by VeraClark on Sat, 2018-05-12 21:10

Reminds me of the snow child novel. Forgot the author. Before it has footprints.