Snow and the City Date: Wednesday, 2nd October 2002 @ 09:45:00 AM AEST Topic: Sad Poetry Contributed By: aernby The blizzard teases our myth of mastery, Blocking our roads, Icing our noses Rollicking about us as we stand, bewildered. Waiting for the buses that are slowed, stalled, By snow: Joking rudely up our coats, as we, Exasperated, trudge on in seriousness. The wind whips up the snow as helpless as we Are helpless before the snow. The snow has Come to see the sights and stop the action; To blow around the buildings and over that Wall of phantasy which we have erected. The wall which marks the limits beyond which no wild thing may pass without first Surrendering its genitals. The wind laughs And swirls in about us. The snow surrounds us And settles in for a siege... This poem is Copyright © aernby Important note: ALL POETRY ON THIS SITE IS COPYRIGHT. If you wish to use any poem for any purpose, please either EMAIL Mick from the sites feedback form, or go to the AUTHOR'S site and EMAIL the author for permission. If you Email Mick for permission on any poem that is not his personal works, he will endeavor to contact the author on your behalf. This poem comes from Your Poetry Dot Com https://www.your-poetry.com/ The URL for this poem is: https://www.your-poetry.com/route.php?page=poetry/PoemDetail&story_id=4536