***a Tribute To Snowflakes: Happy 2010! Poem by RAJ NANDY

A TRIBUTE TO SNOWFLAKES:
- HAPPY 2010!
Deep within the snow covered landscape,
Lies a symphony of Nature’s microscopic
beauty unseen!
Lying crystallized in a multitude of snowflakes,
Like a vast hidden world of dreams!
Till young Wilson Bentley became the first,
To photograph the snowflake’s hidden work
of Art! @
These flakes are minute crystals of hexagonal
shapes,
Where no two flakes ever look the same!
Some are shaped like needles and dendrites,
While others like star crystals look bright!

Perhaps those heavenly stars from eons past,
Watching mankind that turns to dust;
With their petty quarrels and strife, -
And with all their arrogance and pride,
Vainly trying to challenge God’s might;
Shed their tears all through the night!
Their tears float down as they waltz through
space,
Falling gently like some gossamer lace,
To get congealed into snowflakes white!
Presenting in the morning a dazzling sight,
Like a drapery over Nature, - of dazzling white!
While all our impurities they cover and hide,
Those little snowflakes of pearly ice, -
Makes the earth appear like a Paradise!
- Raj Nandy
31 Dec 09
New Delhi
***A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! ***

NOTES: -
@= It was young Wilson Bentley, who in 1805, fitted a microscope
to his camera to take the first photographs of Snowflakes! He
thereby exposed this hidden world of Art to the world! Hexagonal
in shape, each snow crystal is made up of about 200 separate crystals
with the bonding of hydrogen & oxygen atoms, – forming an infinite
variety of patterns – where no two snowflakes look the same! Snow
crystals grow faster near 5 degrees Fahrenheit, - falling on ground
with temp. below freezing! Their 6 basic shapes are: – plate or flat,
stars; needles; dendrite, and capped column shape!
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