ENGLAND is covered in SNOW
You cannot walk ~ you slip and slide
It's freezing ~ wherever WE GO !
Cars & Bikes are all driving slow
If you fall ~ it hurts your BACKSIDE !
ENGLAND is covered in SNOW
Making all our poor noses glow
We would much rather be inside
It's freezing ~ wherever WE GO !
We love to make SNOWMEN ~ you know
From the SNOW there is nowhere to hide
ENGLAND is covered in SNOW
On the Railways it's all ~ Stop & Go
I'll have to take a Sleigh Bell ride
It's freezing ~ wherever WE GO !
Aeroplanes can't fly from Heathrow
No Florida Christmas ~ I've cried !
ENGLAND is covered in SNOW
It's freezing wherever WE GO !
Thanks for visiting ~ comments welcome Love BRIAN XOX
For those not familiar with the villanelle ~ It is a FRENCH
classical poetic form with 19 lines and only two rhymes
a & b Repeated line are capitalised which results in pattern
A1 b A2 a b A1 a b A2 a b A1 a b A2 a b A1 A2
I hope that is clear ! Normally the lines are co-syllabic ~ OK
Dear President TRUMP please please stop Climate Change
ban the use of COAL etc. and cut down on CO2 emissions !
Climate change has brought Hotter Summers to the UK
(which we like ~ we can holiday in Clacton not St Tropez)
and Colder Winters which we hate ! It causes Canada to
laugh at us ~ England grinds to a halt if we get more than
two inches ! We don't have Snow chains and Snow Ploughs
and we've already run out of salt ! We are all dreaming of
"A Sunny Christmas ~ Just like the ones we used to know !"
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Author:
BRIANSODES (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: December 11th, 2017 07:29
- Category: Nature
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Comments5
Snow is best when viewed on Christmas Cards.
CAREFUL ANDY ~ Your age is showing ! Those of us who are under 40 can still enjoy the White Stuff ~ I made a SNOWMAN yesterday ~ and had a snowball fight with my students @ lunch break !t Out carolling tonight ~ lots of hot mince pies and mulled wine ! Yours BRIAN
Thank you Brian;
Wonderful poem.
England is truly covered in snow at present
Difficult to commute into work at times.
Keep writing
FineB
Snow is always best
if you say it without the 's'.
Great villan whotsits Brian.
You know these Villa-wotsits Michael? Related to Aston Villa football team?!
Thanks MIKE ~ pleased you liked it ! Because of the repetition the Villanelle is an ideal form for a POEM where you wish to reinforce the TITLE ~ Brian
Oohh a Villa-wotsit! So says Michael too. I dunno what it is, mind you. lol.
Well, at least it's English - the poem. Some have been appearing in Greek! Depends if things are 'all Greek' to us, I suppose! Some gremlin got in.
Awesome poem! Well, it looks like a white christmas for you too, huh, Brian? I'm getting covered in the stuff!! But that is winter life here. Sorry about the inconvenience that snow makes for England! Snow buddies--Christina
Thanks CHRIS ~ we shall SURVIVE ! I put it down to IGNORANCE ! Climate change due to CO2 causes Global Warming (Summer) but also to maintain equilibrium Global Cooling (Winter) so our climate is now like IOWA ~ Hot Summers & Cold Winters ! The trouble is we are NOT PREPARED ~ No SNOW CHAINS ~ few SNOW PLOUGHS and never enough SALT to de-freeze the roads. Hence more than 2 inches grinds us to a HALT. I am an Environmental Scientist and I have written to the UK Environmental Agency who thanked me for my information ! It is going to get worse ! Our temperatures at night are forecast to fall to MINUS 13C which is about 10F lower than ALASKA ! Thanks for your concern ~ I am praying TRUMP will be replaced by AL GORE who is an Academic Environmentalist ~ who not only BELIEVES in Climate Change ~ he actually understands it ~ AMEN ! Love in the Snow ~ BRIAN Your Own Snow Angel !
Great pic, Brian! And as you so eloquently point out, snow can be both, beautiful and a pain in the neck!
The last time I shoveled snow was 30 years ago in Montreal!
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