SPRING SNOWFLAKES: A Reflection on Ephemerality

Like
    snowf
    la
kes
       in April

falling from
  a
     turbulent
  sky

     touching th
  is

  world
    briefly
soon
       van
  is
hing
    from
   sight
     our ex
  is
tence
  is
      tra
ncient
yet

a

        sing
le snowf
    la
ke
     can
        re
            joice
          and spark
    le
         wit
             h
   out
      thought

       of
    being era
              sed
if
        it
          shines
in
         the
           mom
              ent
         and
          lets
    eternity em
        brace
            .


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from _Last Poems: Lost Poems_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:  A pictoral poem about snowflakes, death, and aging
KEYWORDS: vanitas, impermanence, impermanence, thoughts on transience

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - )
Begun: 1988 in Nagoya, Japan ✠ Finished: 2010 in Tokyo, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}}  

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