Poem of the Day: "Blizzard" by William Carlos Williams, Poet of the Month

The Songs of Eretz Poem of the Day for August 16, 2014 is "Blizzard" by William Carlos Williams, Poet of the Month.  The poem was first published in Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems in 1921 http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-William-Carlos-Williams/dp/0811211878.  It is in the public domain and therefore legally reprinted here.  A brief biography of Williams and references may be found here:  http://eretzsongs.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-songs-of-eretz-poet-of-month-for.html.

Blizzard

William Carlos Williams

Snow:

years of anger following

hours that float idly down —

the blizzard

drifts its weight

deeper and deeper for three days

or sixty years, eh? Then

the sun! a clutter of

yellow and blue flakes —

Hairy looking trees stand out

in long alleys

over a wild solitude.

The man turns and there —

his solitary track stretched out

upon the world.

At first, life is difficult, swirling with anger and emotion.  One drifts as does snow, without purpose, for a time whether long or short.  Finally life improves; the sun comes out, and one may look back at the tracks in the snow, the solitary path which has been trodden.  So, man lives his life alone, most of it in confusion, as if lost in a blizzard.