Christmas is my favourite time of year and I love snow. I always find snow full of wonderful contradictions.

Write a poem with the title, 'Snow'. Make it at least four verses long and fill it with contradictions. Show the wonder of nature through the poem.
SNOW

    I am as old as this Earth
    And as young as present.
	As white as light and as dark as death;
	I can instill strong feelings 
	Of warmth and coldness simultaneously.
 	
	I am a killer yet full of life.                                     
	My long arms can stretch near and far 
	Into our beloved Blue Pearl.
	I am loved yet feared,
	Am respected yet loathed;
	I am enduring beauty and excruciating pain.
	Many fairytales and myths involve me,
	Scott….and others have tried to conquer me.

	I am soft, light and crystalline.
	As small as a speck and as large as “far as you can see”.
	As still as a statue and faster than a cheetah,
	Quieter than a whisper yet as loud as thunder.
	I am a loving shelter and a home wrecker….
	I am as cold and hard as steel.

	I am about magic and fantasy
	And horror and tragedy;
	I am one of Mother Nature’s contradictions….
	I am perfection….
	I am snow. 