<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389944" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Color Of Snow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For David Karetsky (April 14, 1940-March 12, 1991) , killed in an avalanche</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Putting the skis down<br>in the white snow,<br>the wind singing,<br>the blizzard of time<br>going past your eyes,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is a little<br>like being snowed in<br>in the Connecticut house<br>on a day when the world<br>goes away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and only the white dog<br>follows you out<br>to make fresh tracks<br>in the long blue shadow<br>of the mountain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are all halfway there,<br>preferring not<br>to think about it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You went down the mountain<br>first,<br>in a blaze of light,<br>reminding us<br>to seize our lives,<br>to live with the wind<br>whistling in our ears,<br>and the light bedazzling<br>the tips of our skis</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the people we love<br>waiting in the lodge below<br>scribbling lines<br>on paper the color<br>of snow,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">knowing there is no<br>holding on<br>but only the wind singing<br>and these lines of light<br>shining<br>in the fresh snow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erica+Jong">Erica Jong</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=389944" data-title="The Color Of Snow de Erica Jong" data-description="For David Karetsky (April 14, 1940-March 12, 1991) , killed in an avalanche Putting the skis down in the white snow, the wind singing, the blizzard of time going past your eyes, it is a little like being snowed in in the Connecticut house on a d..."></div> </div> </div>

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