[JustAmy]

This isn't really Texas, but the poem is by my great-half-aunt.

Miracle Of Snow

Today I saw a wondrous sight,
My cedar trees bloomed out in white!

Forsythia too, instead of gold,
In gleaming silver I behold.

Down through the air their petals fall
Making a silent coverall,

Even the lilac's purple frond
A garb of filmy white has donned.

Its pointed tapers are aglow
With God's sweet miracle of snow.

By Laressa Cox McBurney
Published in Prairie Panorama in 1938

[fish hawk]

THE HINGE OF THE UNIVERSE

What great swinging pendulum
do we ride
where in one arc
a world is born and dies
ultimately remembered never more
and will we find the other side
to disembark
and travel where the future lies
a far and distant shore

What universal hinge is born
what moments are our precious span
of what direction is our line
that dwells upon this sea and sod
while gates of Pleiades still mourn
the fragile monuments to man
as heaven's lights forever shine
in timeless attribute to God.

[MeekOneGOP]

Very nice.

That may not be Texas, but we HAVE had some ice storms that were real doozies !!