Thank you Sue this is truly lovely seasonal poem and your good wishes,.Snow
has fallen around us at the moment and the moors and hills look lovely.
Thanks Sally j
>From: Sue Scalf <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Distant Voices
>Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 07:21:04 EST
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>Distant Voices
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>Bare trees, white hills, and snow,
>a flake or two blown from a drift
>beside the road, a moon riding high,
>cold. Winter floats a foggy breath
>in curls of smoke that cling to roofs,
>hang low, then join a cloud
>with sparks borne upon an updraft.
>Windows glow. In side, the family sits,
>heads bent over books, puzzles,
>in quiet companionship. There is no sound
>except the shift of logs, a ticking clock.
>The house is beating like a heart.
>Christmas descends with white wings,
>the scene of apples and evergreens,
>and above the house in darkest night
>the milky foam of stars.
>
>Sue Scalf
>
>
>May Christmas bring you love and health and may the New Year lie before you
>like untrodden snow, a canvas for dreams to fill. Sue
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