A snell wind bites ears and noses,
Eastern chill numbs fingertips
but Oh what delight the glow
of returning sun has brought ,
replacing late-lingered gloom
on winter faces with smiles.
Five unbroken days of golden light
transforms blue to bliss.
Poetic Bloomings asked us to write an imagist poem, something of which I seem incapable. This was the nearest I could get to the brief.
Snell is a Scottish word meaning keen, sharp or severe.
Lovely – please send some more blue sky this way. We had some lovely days at the beginning of the week but have been suffering from cloud off the sea ever since and it may bring snow today. Sally
Blue to bliss indeed…it’s like a switch in the soul when the sun shines for a while!! Beautifully said, Viv!
Nothing like the sun to lift moods!
So glad this was front and centre in my reader. It brought a smile to my face just reading it.
How very true that sunshine makes such a difference in one’s mood. I also like the word snell.
I think it’s in “To a mouse”?
I enjoyed this poem
Absolutely right – “An’ bleak December’s win’s ensuin,
Baith snell an’ keen!”
Jock knows this one by heart: as well as many others, and the words rub off on this Sassenach.
I love ‘snell’! Great word.
It is amazing how sunshine lifts the spirits.