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med_cat: (Winter London)
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"A Crystal Forest", by William Sharp

med_cat: (Winter London)
The air is blue and keen and cold,

With snow the roads and fields are white

But here the forest's clothed with light

And in a shining sheath enrolled.

Each branch, each twig, each blade of grass,

Seems clad miraculously with glass:

Above the ice-bound streamlet bends

Each frozen fern with crystal ends.

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Dec. 20th, 2017 11:33 pm (UTC)
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
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Dec. 22nd, 2017 01:04 am (UTC)
You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Dec. 21st, 2017 02:16 am (UTC)
Ooh, that's lovely! In New Jersey when I was a girl, we had ice-storms like that; it was so wondrous.

Yesterday our mountains were completely hidden behind a lowering cloud of sloppy slush coming down sideways, but this morning's dawn revealed them shining white against the bright-blue sky; all the forests above the snow-line totally coated in heavy, sticky snow.

Now the New Moon is hanging clear and gold, with the Old Moon in her arms, just above the mountains - which are invisible in the dark, but I'll see the bottom of the Moon obscured by them in a few minutes, before she sinks out of sight behind them entirely. A beautiful way for Winter to begin. ^^
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Dec. 21st, 2017 04:50 pm (UTC)
Pleased you enjoyed the poem :)

Sounds beautiful, you should take some photos sometime.
Dec. 21st, 2017 03:41 pm (UTC)
Beautiful - thank you for sharing.
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Dec. 21st, 2017 04:50 pm (UTC)
My pleasure! Very glad you liked it :)