[Joebill]

a little something i wrote years ago.

poem: stars and snow

another dream, perchance ?

Softly the snow fell,
across the dell,
it being summer,
outside of it,
winter was there,
waiting,
for the end of Autumn,
abiding,
like those who wanted to travel,
to the stars,
swiftly,
or in generation ships,
some of them,
didn't much care.

The snow fall was soon over,
it was just there,
to preserve,
the cold,
not inhibit the summer,
outside the dell.

The distant stars,
twinkled on the new fallen snow,
one or two,
casting shadows there.

Oh, how the Winter did dream,
of other winters,
on other planets,
oh, how it did dream,
there,
in that little dell.

Sometimes a human,
or so the winter thought,
came to the edge of the dell,
and it awoke, somewhat,
to see that being sit there,
just at the edge of the dell.

The human,
if he was one,
would smile,
and say naught,
just look up.

Oh, to the Stars !

Once,
long ago,
the human did sing,
if human it be,
about travelling to distant stars,
and what might there be,
maybe it was that Spring,
as the Winter rested in that dell,
its almost slumber slightly disturbed,
maybe it was that time,
it started to dream,
of voyaging to the Stars !

The winter was not certain,
if humans could float,
with no seeming support,
a few small inches,
above the ground,
but that was okay,
for the Winter did abide,
in that little dell.

And dreamed,
of Stars !

the end ?