Winter Song From The Snow Queen Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

to Hans Christian Andersen


she's on her winter planet

under a fleece of stars

but I'm in a blizzard of moonlight



wondering where you are

and why it hurts to breathe here

when flowers of frost appear



and why I have this feeling

at the turning of the year.

too far to measure the distance



that floats between star and star

to undertake the journey

where the earth is diamond hard.



though holly grows under the window

that shines in sapphire blue

and all I can remember

is a little crystal shoe.



that she's on her winter planet

under a fleece of stars

and no one's left to tell me

what the riddles are.


mary angela douglas 13 october 2018