The Snowdrop Poem by Liam ó Comáin

Winter's death decree defied by the snowdrop
As up through a dank leafy decay
Arrives green shoots,
Followed by a white blossom
Then another, then another...
Opening nature's imprisoning fetters
Against the odds in order to herald
A resurrection.

Crocuses, primroses, daffodils
All follow echoing the new life,
A call taken up by all of nature
Except one who doubted
And from whose doubt came
The great act of truth-
' My Lord and my God! '

All in accord with the great natural symphony
Impregnated with a promise from one Anointed.