(Inspired by the Kate Bush track '50 Words for Snow', from the album of the same name.)
Wilful winter winds will blow
Here's 50 phrases for the snow!
Fifty… January dandruff
Forty-nine….polar fur
Forty-eight…. The Busy Blank
Forty-seven….diamond hearts of December
Forty-six…. solid silence
Forty-five… North Wind currency
Forty-four…breath fountain
Forty-three… tongueflakes
Forty-two… ivory sharpenings
Forty-one… skin-piercing ice-splinters
Forty….a snowman’s dream
Thirty-nine… full-stop flurries
Thirty-eight…frostbite site
Thirty-seven... Solstice carpet
Thirty-six…dandelion crystals
Thirty-five…chilly, spilled milkdrops
Thirty-four… citybleacher
Thirty-three…the season’s sobbing
Thirty-two…diamond desert
Thirty-one…tickertape and ice parade
Thirty…lonely, glass stars
Twenty-nine…snowman camouflage
Twenty-eight ... pale pillowfights
Twenty-seven…pallid polka frost
Twenty-six... Snowball factory
Twenty-five…grey-haired storm
Twenty-four…cream flood
Twenty-three….latte sugar
Twenty-two…the wind, whisked white
Twenty-one…confetti at Winter’s wedding
Twenty…Lapland dancers, North Pole Dancers
Nineteen…sneezes waiting to happen
Eighteen... cocky shivers
Seventeen…awe-powder
Sixteen…jig-snow pieces
Fifteen…scarf wool frenzy
Fourteen…arctic pepper
Thirteen…cold coat, lost property
Twelve…deadly Wonderland
Eleven… lifting, shifting drifts
Ten….salty specks of cloud
Nine… fancy Yule necklace
Eight… nocturne-glue
Seven… fingertip freezer
Six… stellar tsunami
Five…dazzling, icy bees
Four…tinsel icicles
Three… amnesia ballet
Two… St. Nicholas dust
One …. Winter’s washing powder.
A wordy waltz in written snow
I managed fifty, don’t you know?
The landscape forgets its shape and we
Can all be angels momentarily.
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