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Sunday, March 5, 2023

The Snow Is Deep on the Ground / Kenneth Patchen


The Snow Is Deep on the Ground

The snow is deep on the ground.
Always the light falls
Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.

This is a good world.
The war has failed.
God shall not forget us.
Who made the snow waits where love is.

Only a few go mad.
The sky moves in its whiteness
Like the withered hand of an old king.
God shall not forget us.
Who made the sky knows of our love.

The snow is beautiful on the ground.
And always the lights of heaven glow
Softly down on the hair of my belovèd.

~~
Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
from 
Collected Poems, 1943

Kenneth Patchen biography

"The Snow is Deep on the Ground" read by Kenneth Patchen. Smithsonian Folkways, 1961

1 comment:

  1. Quite of interest to find out that the Jimmy Buffett song "Death Of An Unpopular Poet" is about Kenneth Patchen:..!

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