Awaiting Snow

"Awaiting Snow"

Peering out through soft lamplight,

will our first snow fall tonight?

Turning drab winter to purest white,

filling small children with delight.

Remembering days now long ago,

frolicking, reveling, in fresh snow,

shrieking, sliding, aiming snowballs.

Happiest of times; then Mother calls.

"Come in! Hot cocoa, then off to bed,"

where snowmen, snow forts raced

through my young head.

We'll go out again with morning's light,

to a new, magic world, dazzling white.

Barbara Ruby is a long time Puyallup resident whose poems have appeared frequently in Northwest Prime Times Poetry Corner.

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