<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518080" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>We Are All The Snow Men</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WE ARE ALL THE SNOW MEN <br>(Homage to Wallace Stevens) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are all the snow men <br>Minor would- be Poets<br>Listening in the distant glitter <br>To the poem someone else has written <br>Far better than us. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are all the quiet readers <br>Connecting our eyes and ears with images <br>Finer than those <br>We can ourselves fantasize: <br>The ‘junipers shagged with ice’<br>And ‘the spruces rough in the distant glitter’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are all minor makers of our own nothingness <br>Beside the Great Poets who find a music of the soul <br>We seek and strive for and never find. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are all the lesser snow men <br>Out in the cold of our own small minds <br>Shivering to death in the unending winter <br>of our own frosted souls </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the great long-lines rise up in flight<br> And go by<br> Beyond ‘ambiguous undulations’ <br>A fierce parting light <br>Our bare selves <br> strain to surmise and survive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shalom+Freedman">Shalom Freedman</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=518080" data-title="We Are All The Snow Men de Shalom Freedman" data-description="WE ARE ALL THE SNOW MEN (Homage to Wallace Stevens) We are all the snow men Minor would- be Poets Listening in the distant glitter To the poem someone else has written Far better than us. We are all the quiet readers Connecting our eyes a..."></div> </div> </div>

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