Snowdrift has been my word of the day. For those of you who live in warmer climates and have never heard of or dealt with one and are probably sniggering at me right now with a smug look on your sun-tanned face — a snowdrift is a mass of snow that’s heaped up by the wind. So what? Well, when you get about 25-28 inches of snow in a weekend coupled with 50 mph winds, the piles of snow against your main door, your car, your front yard, everywhere .. are about 4 feet tall. Enter our friend, Mr Snowplow Operator who takes these 4-foot piles and pushes another truckload of snow on top of it. What one ends up with is quite a Himalayan experience. (No not Bhagyashree’s husband. And if you didn’t get that joke, you need to brush up on your pointless Hindi-movie trivia from the early 90s.)
So the weather inspired the poet in me. Yes, let us assume, for the sake of this post that there IS a poet in me. After all, my last creative outpouring was also about the weather. So here I am, back with another. Can we keep the collective groans in the audience to a minimum please? Thanks to fellow blogger Hob Gadling for added inspiration.
Snow
Snow, snowdrifts, sleet and ice
Driving around is not very nice
Yay! I have all-wheel drive!
Without it I couldn’t survive.
Woke up in the morn’ and — whoa!
Falling all around, soft and slow
On the tree branch, on the black crow
Feels like Christmas again, ho ho ho!
*sigh* I am no poet, I know..
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Kabutar ja ja ja
Kabutar ja ja ja
Pehle pyaar ki pehli chithiiiiiiii…
*ahem*
Saw a pigeon in Manhattan at around 9:30pm Friday night. Temperature was 5F (-15C, and that’s without windchill)! Was that a hot bird or what? (Damn. If only it had been a baby hen instead…)
I stepped out Sunday morning, and couldn’t resist appreciating the sheer symmetry of an unending line of parked ca’a’rs (pronounced Boston style), with their hoods buried in the snow. As if all of them had driven into a snow embankment in unison.
My appreciation came to a screeching halt when I saw that the cars on the other side of the street were seemingly untouched by the blizzard. That’s the frustrating beauty of a snowdrift. Having to learn a lesson in irony from Mother Nature so early on a Sunday morning sure beats the hell out of sleeping in, doesn’t it?
I’m more of a limerick man, so here goes:
There was a ‘telugu inti aadapaduchu’ from Boston,
Had a pair of gloves, then she lost ‘un,
With just one glove, she shovelled the snow,
Missed her footing, stubbed her lil’ toe,
And yelled she’d move to Austin.
PS: I really dunno what a ‘telugu inti aadapaduchu’ actually is, but u guys were having so much fun with it that I simply had to use it in my masterpiece. :)
well, i reached your blog through very limited blog hopping (just followed ur link :) ) and i shall surely visit it again. i loved ur copyright notice and felt bad for not coming up with somethig like that myself :( cheers and keep blogging.
well, instead of sniggering at u, i’d like to be there and see all that snow as i’ve never seen such a scene. it’d be lovely i bet. though i wund’t be living there though. that’d be darn hard. just a visit or two wud be good. :)
Yes you are no poet… just a poetess or maybe a limerick-istess
I am no poet or a limerick-ist..def not a poetess or any kisstess *grin*
bad limerick alert…. Y’ all can groan loudly.. I dont mind
megha rains and shes in pain!
megha snows, complains of drifts!
megha re megha! no rhyme no reason
Just a different megha for every season
…….. catch my drift? *Atchoo*
Bhagyashree’s husband exp is goodone megha,u still remember them:) i guess i can only feel to an extent what ur trying to say,i have never been in such a place so it looks beautiful to me,ya,but then reality always contradicts the myth or dreams:)
telugu ammayi ki hello chepdamani vacchanu:) elaunnavu?
Tip tip barsa pani
Yaad aa gayi meri nani
Dhar dhar giri baraf
Main to hoon teri hi taraf
Gaadi par na hota hai control
This is the time for Rock’n'Roll
…
*sheepish grin*
Sorry, couldn’t resist. :D
Wow ! that’s some real snow we are talking about. First of all I can’t take this snow and upar se this wind chill(the main culprit)…how can people survive ? OK snow is pretty for the first time or may be the first few times (if you haven’t seen one before i.e) Can’t live with the snow every day, day after day.
How can I forget Himalaya lol…his eyes were almost popping out in one song I remember, that was scary.
“Feels like Christmas again, ho ho ho! “
hahaha :d that was funny lol looks like every one is into poetry here !! snow inspires poets ? I din’t know ..I am no bard of avon but what the heck !! let me chip in too :p don’t laugh ok ?
Snow snow there you go :p
when u fall I feel so low
I slip and fall walking on the ice
I walk again and lo ! fall twice
why do u love to stick to the tire
cause an accident and then some fire
I drive so fast when you’re not around
fast is past when you surround
Snow snow there you go
Do I like you ? A big no :p
OK laugh all u want !!
Hey, you been playing around with your template? coz the side panel (in IE) is not appearing at the side but at the bottom… have a looksee.
Resizing problem. Only happens when the browser is not maximized.
[Hawkeye, Devdutt] I think i’ve fixed the problem. Checked on IE, Firefox and Opera and looks fine at my end. Please confirm? And thankoo for catching it!
(The doodleboard and guestmap are temporarily disabled. Will come back alive in a day or so)
Was watching the news, and wondering how all them snowstorms were treating you. Rather well, i would say, going by the poetry. :)
Hmm… the poet in u is really good :)
so, enjoying the snow thr.. hmm.. u should have added a couple of pictures too so that we ppl out here in India could aswell enjoy seeing it in pictures atleast.. :)
Nope, prob not fixed. This happens on the main page, but not on a side page (like this one)..
And, do you think you cud tell me why my blog looks totally crappy in netscape or firefox?
Hawkeye – Try doing this to your template (in textpad or some editor). replace all
Hey, time for a new post, wot zey ra?
Wah wah. Ek ek ka kya poetry hai. Megha’s “poetry” sure did touch the “Kavi” bone in everyone.
“Woh Akele hee likhti gayi
Jaanib-e-so called shayari Magar
Humsafar miltey gaye
Aur begane shayaron ka Kaarvaan banta gaya “
-from “Beganey Shayaron ka Badshah”
I can sooo relate with you having survived 3 nasty winters in Michigan!! /:-|
Cant describe how happy I am now that I have moved to Sunny Florida :)
Just wondering if your readers know who’s responsible for that wonderful design work on the South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog?
:-p