WARLIKE FAIRIES?
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If winter accompanied by fairies,
Is generally soft and light…
Whom do we say brought a storm
With hard-punching winds and fight?
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Are we to believe same fairies
That brought the gentle are strong…
That a soft magical creature
Will turn unto King Kong?
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The world of the fairies
Is wonderment contained…
And only someone who knows this world
Can have these queries explained!
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–Jonathan Caswell
WATER FAERIES WINTER UNDER
Where do water faeries go,
When weather turns cold with snow…
They find it nice
Underneath the ice,
Until springs thaw returns water flow.
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I’m sure everybody has seen
Open water in winter that steams…
Water faeries will dance
In sudden romance,
While sunlight keeps the opening ice-clean.
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All that one could wish,
Is to sleep with the turtles and fish…
Til the springtime warms
The heart of swarms
Of faeries and flies feverish.
–Jonathan Caswell
Ice Fairy, from Bing images (see the open water?)
FIRST FROST PICTORIAL
(sing to “Animal Crackers in My Soup”)
Chrysanthemums are askew
Heavy-laden with frozen dew,
Frosty grass is all aglow
With something that reminds of snow!
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Yellow sun pops glistening rays
Over leaves with crystal glaze,
Tree trunks darken from melting frost
Making sure no heat is lost!
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Short-tailed fairies in waters dwell
Rising up in the moist-er dells,
Stretching lithe backs to catch the sun
Raising their arms to the Holy One!
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First frost feathers melt away
Until another autumn day,
Flowers straighten getting warm
Glad they have escaped a storm!
–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 