<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351280" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Snow Day</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today we woke up to a revolution of snow,<br>its white flag waving over everything,<br>the landscape vanished,<br>not a single mouse to punctuate the blankness,<br>and beyond these windows</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the government buildings smothered,<br>schools and libraries buried, the post office lost<br>under the noiseless drift,<br>the paths of trains softly blocked,<br>the world fallen under this falling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a while I will put on some boots<br>and step out like someone walking in water,<br>and the dog will porpoise through the drifts,<br>and I will shake a laden branch,<br>sending a cold shower down on us both.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But for now I am a willing prisoner in this house,<br>a sympathizer with the anarchic cause of snow.<br>I will make a pot of tea<br>and listen to the plastic radio on the counter,<br>as glad as anyone to hear the news</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that the Kiddie Corner School is closed,<br>the Ding-Dong School, closed,<br>the All Aboard Children's School, closed,<br>the Hi-Ho Nursery School, closed,<br>along with -- some will be delighted to hear --</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the Toadstool School, the Little School,<br>Little Sparrows Nursery School,<br>Little Stars Pre-School, Peas-and-Carrots Day School,<br>the Tom Thumb Child Center, all closed,<br>and -- clap your hands -- the Peanuts Play School.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So this is where the children hide all day,<br>These are the nests where they letter and draw,<br>where they put on their bright miniature jackets,<br>all darting and climbing and sliding,<br>all but the few girls whispering by the fence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now I am listening hard<br>in the grandiose silence of the snow,<br>trying to hear what those three girls are plotting,<br>what riot is afoot,<br>which small queen is about to be brought down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Billy+Collins">Billy Collins</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=351280" data-title="Snow Day de Billy Collins" data-description="Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a single mouse to punctuate the blankness, and beyond these windows the government buildings smothered, schools and libraries buried, the..."></div> </div> </div>

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