Snow Flakes fascinate me immensely... Inspired by Oran Pamuk's novel 'Snow'
Snow Flakes
No two snow flakes are alikeEach has a design its own
Each one a separate scheme intricate
Each one, a mind its own …
Nature has infused this variety
Into the crystallization of vapour
A select pattern for each so fine
Each a perfect hexagon defines…
Is it a random phenomenon?
Or is it a scheme divine,
I often contemplate, in the short-lived flake
That merges quietly with its companions
To become an integral part of
A mass of snow
Settling on each twig, each bough
Of a barren tree, covering it fully
with a fluffy blanket of tulle de blance...
But, before it merges with
the powerful, yet gentle,
mountain of snow,
Embedding the whole world
in its countenance,
Or freeze to ice on a window pane
to etch an intricate artistic design,
It has its own brief moment of individuality...
But, sometimes it just perishes, if
It happens to fall on a warm lip,
A troubled brow or an eyelid,
Where it just melts with
the human warmth
Evaporates in a instance brief
Returning to its original form-
An invisible vapour warm-
Happy in its succinct moment of glory…
Only to return the next season again,
As a fluffy snow flake
that will continue to fall
‘Till the end of time…
Long after your time and mine…
Author: Zoya Zaidi
Aligarh (UP), India
Copyright ©: Zoya Zaidi
Snow Flakes on an Evergreen Tree’
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Poetry by Zoya Zaidi
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Written on 2007-12-09 at 07:35
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