I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Snow (Winter ’98)

by Roldan Din

Snow – fall, envelop, and drown me,
numb my consciousness,
hide my imperfections.

With the grace of your
falling powder flakes,
let me forget, even in a wink,
the colder curse within.

You came to me unexpectedly -
creeping in at night and
turning my ordinary world
into a wonderland – a most joyous surprise!

You, then, will leave me within a season,
drop per drop… with the comforting
assurance of your return.

Oh, so unlike a love who left me forever, yesterday,
in an equally numbing cold strike.
He once was gentle too,
graceful too,
and kind too.
Turned my world into a wonderland!
Covered my imperfections – loved me for a season
but then left me longing and alone…
comparing even my most beautiful and innocent white snow
to his affections – melted and gone now.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.