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Open Poetry #36

The Magic in Meteorology

Jaime Fradera
Senior Member

since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2005-12-18 08:26 PM

The Magic In Meteorology (re-titled)
by The Southern Cross

Now here is something
I have always wondered about.
If you were to take a snowflake,
Freeze it motionless in space,
Suspend the law of gravitation,
Magnify the snowflake say, two hundred times,
And make Time stop,
So the snowflake wouldn’t melt,
And made the snowflake
So it wouldn’t fall apart,
What would this magnified snowflake feel like?
What dimensions would it have?
Would it be thick … or thin? …
Would it be six-sided … eight-sided?
Would it feel like gossamer? … Like cotton candy?
Would it feel delicate and strong?
Would there be intricate designs
Upon its surface I could feel?
If only I could catch them
Before they are deformed by impact.
If only I could catch them for my study
Before my heated fingers make them melt,
Before they have a chance to bounce away
And get trampled underfoot.
I wish upon a star …
I wish upon a snowflake …
Some time I'll have to tell you
how I went out one night to gather
magic hailstones fallen from the sky,
palpable, touchable solid objects,
creations of the elemental forces,
water, air and fire;
and how, alas, I couldn't keep them ...

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2005-12-18 09:40 PM

hehe I remember snowballs in the freezer, wrapped up in ziplock baggies
as always, I enjoyed your mind travel log

majnu

Senior Member

since 2002-10-13

Posts 1088
SF Bay Area

2 posted 2005-12-20 03:32 AM

cool, pun intended. my meteoroligist friend might want to know where you live however

-majnu
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Timid thoughts be not afraid. I am a Poet.

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