So we decided to love our Peak

Happy Easter!

I'm re-running this post from Easter 2009 -- when we had an impromptu snow storm on Easter morn.  I hope that you enjoy it!

The fact that we live at the foot of Pikes Peak makes our weather very extreme and quite unpredictable at times. I used a technique I'd learned in a poetry class I took recently where you juxtapose the order of words. I think it makes the poetry a bit lighter and playful. What do you think?

So We Decided to Love our Peak

by Laurie Jackson

The mountain made the sky forget

it’s April, and Easter, a day for sun

Down snowflakes dropped, thick and wet,

as up we woke, prepared for fun

“Oh no – snow!” we out loud moaned

our yesterday memories clear and bright

We grumpy groused and crabby groaned

that the weather could change over so night

Mother smiled – she wasn’t worried

She had, of course, a plan in mind

So down we piped and up she hurried

To indoor hide hunt eggs to find

Out she shooed, upstairs we waited

and outside gazed from the windowsill

as snowflakes fell on our garden gated

and landed a landscape soft and still

One by one we started to speak

to murmur how it sure looked nice

So we decided to love our Peak

to take good beauty with bad ice

We upped our chins and had a go

at Easter egg hunting in our pjs,

then rode to church in snow drive slow,

and ahead dreamed to sunny May days