Sprite child on sighting snow
\ndances with delight
\nat a miracle not seen before
\neach precious flake hoarded
\nto build an eight inch
\nsnowman<\/p>\n
Students delight in time
\nout of school, vying
\nto build the best igloo
\nor using compressed handfuls
\nin their own power
\nstruggles<\/p>\n
Adult involved in balancing
\ncomplex priorities, choosing
\nbetween the demands of safety
\nand the necessary tasks
\ndeciding what to let
\nslide<\/p>\n
Elderly trapped within
\nthe icy waste around
\ntheir own secure home
\nunable to step beyond their
\nfront door for fear of
\nfailing.<\/p>\n
This poem I published in\u00a0 \u201cEverything Looks Green From Here\u201d a collection of prose and poetry from Broomspring Writers in 2010<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sprite child on sighting snow dances with delight at a miracle not seen before each precious flake hoarded to build an eight inch snowman Students delight in time out of school, vying to build the best igloo or using compressed handfuls in their own power struggles Adult involved in balancing complex priorities, choosing between the … Continue reading Ice Ages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jengiejon.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}