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Rated: E · Poetry · Mythology · #916359
A Family Poem Re-written for my son Ben
Jack Frost


  Chill air and icicles hang sharp! The hoar-frost is nigh
It is all Jack Frost’s work done with his frosty cold eye!

*Snow2*


All the trees, instead of leaves are touched by his wand
All water no longer flows, but is still as the millpond

*Snow2*


Girls and boys in mittens, socks and gowns
Stay inside! Stay inside! While Jack Frost is in town!

*Snow2*


Look out  at Jack’s icy cold work from your window ledge
But be careful! His mere glance is command and pledge

*Snow2*


You’ll be his forever, mere crackling, slivered ice
Crumbling and melting as soon as he’s by

*Snow2*


So look and enjoy, the picturesque spoils, little girl, little boy
Look at the sparkling white ice that Jack Frost dost deploy!

*Snow2*


Heed Me! Do not go out to play! Stay Safe! By your hearthside
Don’t venture out til Jack’s gone to other pastures, untried.


*Snow2*



© October 2004

Written for my youngest son
Ben  @ N.I.D.A. , Sydney Australia


... as requested by him ...
  this is an old poem, origins: first known
  & told to me by my Grandfather
...unable to find original, I wrote this,
  when Ben asked me to ...















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