The Significance of Snow

By Richard Ellis Tice

For want of this God used all:

Wind, water, absence of fire

And presence of sun, ice, earth.

Wrought, ribbed, patterned: reflected

In whole and part, His wisdom.

To fall like white stars, turning

Palely, each dying lustre

Foreseen, planned for chance, each new

Crystal folding light in, out,

Living through the ebbing pulse

Of fall, the stop, the single

Final iridescent change.