The First Snow   
   
   27/12/97 1:37 pm
   Charles Dum
   
   Perhaps you'll see, 
   In dandy old grandiosity- 
   The near silent fall, 
   Of snow off a tree. 
   
   If you do, 
   Be sure and still. 
   With not a one 
   Stirring with a chill. 
   
   If stillness 
   Is not ensured, 
   The effect is 
   Much more blurred. 
   
   But oh the smell, 
   Of new fallen snow! 
   The clean, crisp air 
   As the wind slightly blows. 
   
   So clean I feel 
   Like I'm in the middle of an ocean- 
   Almost as if I were to lay down in the snow 
   I would dissapear for at least a millenium! 
   
   So calm, so peaceful- 
   May I drift away? 
   I wish I could- 
   Wouldn't yesterday, but maybe today.