{"id":6110,"date":"2014-02-04T23:59:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T23:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=6110"},"modified":"2014-02-04T23:59:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T23:59:56","slug":"guest-blog-daniel-cleary-more-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2014\/02\/guest-blog-daniel-cleary-more-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blog: Daniel Cleary “More Snow”"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Snow<\/strong><\/p>\n

The snow, the snow, the silent snow
\nComes down & piles up all around
\nIn seamless drifts & (as we go)
\nCovers up every inch of ground.<\/p>\n

It dances lightly in the air
\n& weaves & wavers as it falls.
\nSoftly alighting here & there
\nIt drapes the trees in lacy shawls<\/p>\n

Till all that\u2019s left for miles to view
\nAre pallid prospects, greying skies
\n& scenes of such a nameless hue
\nThey act like anodyne on the eyes.<\/p>\n

Grey interwoven into grey
\n& grey in grey: devoid of sting,
\nWho would have thought that so much grey
\nCould such sure consolation bring?<\/p>\n

Wrapped in such glory hour by hour
\nWe might in time forget our woes
\n& like a buttoned down explorer
\nLose ourselves gladly in the snows.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Cleary \u00a9 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Daniel Cleary<\/strong> is a painter and poet from Chicago. His poem \u201cFireside\u201d appeared here December 5, 2014<\/a>.\u00a0 If you follow Daniel Cleary on Facebook<\/a>, you\u2019ll know that he often posts poems. \u00a0When I asked him what\u2019d he\u2019d like to add to his bio, he had this to say: \u201cI have a great desire to get a book out this year. I have two possible titles: one “A Few Stray Leaves<\/strong>” and the other, “A Voice from the Hills<\/strong>” In the meantime, I have at least three manuscripts sitting in my computer: “Agonies<\/strong>” “A Hill in Sunlight<\/strong>” and “Bugles and Buttercups<\/strong>.\u201d \u00a0Here\u2019s hoping a poetry publisher reads this.<\/p>\n

Daniel Cleary <\/strong>was born in Tipperary Town, Ireland and grew up there, and lived for a few years in London, England, before moving to Chicago in 1968. His first passion was painting, but he always loved poetry; \u201cthough I never considered myself a writer.\u201d He has two books: The Green Ribbon<\/strong><\/em> (Wyndham Hall Press) and Elegy for James Gerard and Other Poems for the Larger Voice<\/em><\/strong> (Fractal Edge Press)<\/a>. If you\u2019d like to see Daniel\u2019s paintings, check out his website.<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n

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More Snow The snow, the snow, the silent snow Comes down & piles up all around In seamless drifts & (as we go) Covers up every inch of ground. It dances lightly in the air & weaves & wavers as it falls. Softly alighting here & there It drapes the trees in lacy shawls Till […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1961,1879,1882,12,1970,13,787,7,16,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-6110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-dan-cleary","8":"tag-daniel-cleary","9":"tag-elegy-for-james-gerard-and-other-poems","10":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","11":"tag-more-snow","12":"tag-poetry","13":"tag-snow","14":"tag-solace","15":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","16":"tag-weighed-words","17":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6110"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6117,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6110\/revisions\/6117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}