Snowflake, glistening in the sun
you swirl up, down and around
your fellow flakes
playing in the rays that will soon kill you
with their warmth and brightness.
And yet you dance,
float above the gravel,
flip and turn
glint like a spark
set on the wind.
You spare nothing
have no inhibitions
no worries,
simply live the moment.
For a breath, you stop
on a chamisa flower
hold tight and linger.
Maybe your salvation is in this clinging.
Maybe you can escape the melt.
But no, your demise is certain
as you lose your grip and fall
to the earth.
You melt and enter a creek
where you bump and flow
over boulders and through arroyos.
You join the Rio Grande
meandering across the desert
to the Gulf
where you meet
the Great Ocean.
From there you evaporate,
rise into an ethereal mist
and begin again
dancing…
until you fully grasp
the waltz of the Universe
and merge completely
into Love.
Lesley,
Once again your magical poetry transports me. I am riding with the snowflake on its incredible journey.
Love to you,
Kelley
Thank you, Kelley. I’m right there riding along with you! Wishing you a love-filled holiday!
I am stunned once again by the perfect metaphors you see around you! Like the comment above, we all live the lives of a snowflake, at first believing we will never die, then melting into the belief that life will take us somewhere important, and long is the journey to the Great Ocean. But eventually, we all make it! Such beauty! Thank you so much for this Winter Solstice gift.
Thank you, Rudy. I love how you looked deeply into the poem and saw things I hadn’t seen. Yes, the journey is a constant melting into deeper levels of surrender until there is nothing left but the Beloved inside! So great, dear friend.
Thank you Lesley for providing your, always wonderful, take on Love and Life itself. I so much appreciate what you put out to the Universe. John
Wow Lesley, that is really beautiful! I will always see the snowflake in a different light from now on, (no pun intended, or was it? hahaha.), and I will smile, knowing the Life of a Snowflake. How precious! Happiest of holidays to you and your family!