Angel’s Share Studio

This is a poem that I submitted and received a second place with in the regional poetry contest sponsored by the Queen Annes County Maryland Arts Council.  The contest was open to residents of Cecil, Kent, Caroline, Queen Annes and Talbot counties - the upper Eastern Shore Counties of Maryland.  (Next week I will post the second poem that I had submitted that received an honorable mention.

   Snow Angels
by H.E. McIntyre 12/05/07

I went to count the birds
The smell of snow was on the air
A damp cold breeze
Chilled my inner core
The clouds restrained
A weakened  winter sun -
A muted moon by day.

At first I did not notice
One, then two then three
Droplets on my viewing scope
And then a thousand more
A major blizzard raged
Within that compressed scene.

The swan that left the Tundra ice
Now greeted falling snow
Welcomed a winter westerly
Comfort from their winter home
Sentinels arose on wide spread wings
To embrace a well-known friend.

Two eagles in a courting dance
Overflew a sea of white
There by choice not chance
They, engaged in nuptial flight,
Gained purchase on the frontal breeze
Soared above snow covered trees.

I gazed in wonder up into the sky
And asked not the reason why
I just enjoyed the smell, the taste
This was no time to wonder, to waste
I lay down softly on the ground
Waved my legs and arms around.

I chuckle as I think on that blustery day
What some stranger might have to say
Of all those angels impressed in snow
Where did they come from and where did they go
Were swan just angels in feathered form
Revealing themselves in winter’s storm?

Have a nice week.  HEM

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