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Ice World
by
© billybird_nj


Born in the dark of night,
frost covers all -
making white that was not.
Crystaline structures -
sparkle in shadows.
Each crystal tries to be taller
than his neighbor.

The sun shines
upon this glittering whiteness.
Straining against all
insurmountable odds,
it begins to shrink.
Soon, joined by his kin,
becomes a hovering bit of liquid.
Hanging by mere friction,
it is joined - overcome
with its weight -
falls.

Sun beams down -
more severely.
Alas, alas,
what was once wetness
is not any more.
Such is the life
of morning frost.

William T. Greenacre
(c)WTG 2001


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