The Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme Challenge for January 21st is based on the poem The Snowman by Wallace Stevens
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;
And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter
Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,
Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place
For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
The Snow Man is a from Wallace Stevens’s first book of poetry, Harmonium, and first published in the October 1921 issue of the journal Poetry. Wallace Steven’s was American, born in 1879 and lived to be 75.
I chose a kind of frosty looking snowman, a mandala style cut out of glittery silver card and mounted this on a backing paper with trees and icy branches and berries. My inspiration was the title the snowman and the words of the first and second verses, particularly “frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;” and “junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter” The wording is written by my Cricut Joy Extra using Snow days font.
