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A Poem about Icicles

“Velvet Shoes” – A Poem about Walking in the Snow

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A Poem about Icicles

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Here’s a beautiful poem that you can share with a child in your life. It’s about icicles hanging from trees in the cold winter night. It was written by Elinor Wylie (1885 – 1928).

Silver Filigree

The icicles wreathing
On trees in festoon
Swing, swayed to our breathing:
They’re made of the moon.

She’s a pale, waxen taper;
And these seem to drip
Transparent as paper
From the flame of her tip.

Molten, smoking a little,
Into crystal they pass;
Falling, freezing, to brittle
And delicate glass.

Each a sharp-pointed flower,
Each a brief stalactite
Which hangs for an hour
In the blue cave of night.

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“Velvet Shoes” – A Poem about Walking in the Snow

Sunday, January 15th, 2006

The rain turned into snow last night. The land is a beautiful velvety white.

Here’s a poem about the snow by Elinor Wylie…

Velvet Shoes

Let us walk in the white snow
In a soundless space;
With footsteps quiet and slow,
At a tranquil pace,
Under veils of white lace.

I shall go shod in silk,
And you in wool,
White as white cow’s milk,
More beautiful
Than the breast of a gull.

We shall walk through the still town
In a windless peace;
We shall step upon white down,
Upon silver fleece,
Upon softer than these.

We shall walk in velvet shoes:
Wherever we go
Silence will fall like dews
On white silence below.
We shall walk in the snow.

If it’s wintry white outside near you, put on your velvet shoes and enjoy a walk in the snow!

Lisa

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