Universal winter

• Joan Lee, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2004

Snow flakes, sugar flakes
Drifting from the sky
So beautiful to see and taste
I never want to die

Arctic fox jumps through the drifts
Searching for her dinner
While badgers hibernate in caves
Steadily growing thinner

Angels lie outside the door;
Not God's, but our creation
Beside the fire we keep warm
And peaceful is the nation