Why is it so cold at Christmas?


Brrr!



The ice goddess Shiva


Creeps slowly across the town


Stalks through the semi-sphere


in her moonlit gown



She spreads a thin duvet of frost


On a surface that’s now lost


She makes not a sound


Stealth’s silently across the half lit ground



Evolving and creeping


like thick blood weeping


weaving back and forth


Jerking slow in thick lotion


like a tidal surge in slow motion


As if the land was covered


in a wizard’s potion



Waving her hands


Across the lands


Scattering cold glass mixed with


florescent white sands



Trees heavy with frozen dew


Bend forward like parishioners


Kneeling on old church pews




Telegraph poles like staligmites


Stand fast like rods of molten ice


Pylons crackle yellow and blue


Spitting their discharges at me and you



The moon’s aurora


Beckons to Shiva


To help light up this icy fever



The night light reflects


the ice laden maiden


As she weaves forth


her vast intoxication



Drunk with madness


The rivers ices over


Stars in the sky seem to shine


super nova



Later Helios rises


Moves gently over the curve


His beams start to break


The cold-war starts to turn



Shiva is sucked back


Into the atmospheric plume


Rising slowly upwards


Like a helium filled balloon



The day is restored


But for this non-accord


The gods Shiva and Helios


create this discord



This constant battle


Between ice and sun


Means that there will always be


This oxymoron



Tony WCM serving the Charente and Dordogne Borders




"...now I am become Death [Shiva], the destroyer of worlds..."

Physicist Robert Oppenheimer
Supervising Scientist Manhattan Project

on 16 July 1945 at 0529 HRS, in the Jornada del Muerto desert near  the Trinity site in the White Sands Missile Range. ...quoting from the Bhagavad-Gita upon witnessing first atomic detonation by mankind.

You mean there really is a Santa?

Seems my research was not thorough enough.

Yes but that's just a cobbled up piece of "mythology" written for homework. Many Hindus would advise against messing with Shiva. He's got a very bad temper.

See

http://www.apricotpie.com/matthew/shiva-goddess-of-ice-and-snow

Have a happy warm Christmas

Tony

Shiver my timbers but Shiva's a bloke! Even got a wife called Parvati. Shiva is descibed as being as fair as the sight of a snow covered mountain but that's as far as the iciness goes. I'll go and sit in Pedant's Corner and wish you a Merry Christmas.

you mean to say that the tooth fairy is not real..?

Bugger! That's another illusion shattered. I've only just found out the tooth fairy doesn't exist & now this. There's only so much a bloke can take :-(

Hi Vic

This may be a shock but there is no such thing as Santa........

Thanks for your kind words.

From one Philistine to another

Happy Christmas

WHAT??? And there was me thinking it was cold so that we would have snow & Santa's sled runners would ... slide;-) Happy crimble! 'scuse this philistine!