Across the country, blizzards—blizzards
so big that folks speak of bombogenesis
while standing in line in the coffee shop.
And the snow begins to fall, snow
blocks out the sun, snow fills the roads,
the drives, the sills until people begin to forget
who they are when there isn’t a storm.
Imagine the storm goes on.
Imagine that it isn’t snow falling,
but forgiveness. Imagine all those people
rising morning after morning to find
themselves buried in compassion.
Piles of it. Heaps of it. Giant white drifts of it.
It must be dealt with before anything else
can happen. Before people can even
walk out the door, they must lift it
and move it and feel its surprising weight.
Who knew there was so much of it? Who knew
just how completely it could shut things down
if not engaged with properly? It takes some time,
perhaps, before the people see
how beautiful it is, how every single thing
it touches is softened, turned to sparkle,
turned to shine. A disruption, to be sure,
but sometimes it takes a blizzard
to find the calm. Sometimes
we must be stopped
before we learn how to go on.
And the colder it gets, the more
we must work to be warm.
This is beautiful
Thank you, Angela ⦠saw a few videos of terrible ice lakes on streets in Massachusetts. Not sure what that is a metaphor for ⦠but as for all that snow, let it snow!
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From: “comment-reply@wordpress.com” Reply-To: Date: Sunday, January 7, 2018 at 7:21 AM To: Rosemerry Trommer Subject: [A Hundred Falling Veils] Comment: “As the Pressure Drops”
Like the word onomatopoeia you’ve created a form of meterological prosey.
You rock … i love this phrase meterological prosey 🙂
A dash of Joyce, but only a dash (he’s like nutmeg or allspice)
now I think you rock even more 🙂
Wow and amen
Forgiveness to us all … heaps of it
From: “comment-reply@wordpress.com” Reply-To: Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 9:36 PM To: Rosemerry Trommer Subject: [A Hundred Falling Veils] Comment: “As the Pressure Drops”
I nominated you for an award on my site http://www.whatifweallcared.wordpress.com
I like this very much, compassion and understanding. What we could all use right now
thank you … compassion all around. Amen.
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