Too much snow?

Surely, even global warming goes

Too far if it thinks our temperate fields

Could suffer more than two days of such snows

Before it melts them off to feed the streams

Which plump our Southern Downs and quiet meadows?

Yet her it is - still lying on the ground

And not a hint of thawing out today;

If anything, there's more of it around

With promises of blizzards on the way.

But walking into town down to the sea

Where dull grey waves offset the dazzling beach

My irritation, flake by flake, was eased

And all things seemed to be within my reach,

Brian Hick January 2010

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