Snow among the bamboos!
Or so it seemed.
Cold as an Alpine peak,
Had someone dreamed?
Beyond the gates, warm and dusty,
Lay the streets of the city.
On sloping lawns
Shimmered the high pageantry
Of Spring --
Pink and gold and purple
Vivid as remembering.
Here, in the green heart
Of the gardens
All was quiet.
The river flowed silently;
An old man dozed on his seat,
A pigeon on noiseless feet
Rifled the clover.
Through the stillness
Brooded the bamboos,
And, in their midst,
Delicate as snow-flakes
Drifting through the shadows,
White azaleas bloomed.
First published in The Cairns Post, 11 April 1938
Author: Alice Gore-Jones (1887-1961) was born in Toowong near Brisbane in 1887. She was educated in both Queensland and New South Wales and worked mainly as a journalist on Brisbane newspapers. She died in Queensland in 1961.
Author reference sites: Austlit, Old Qld Poetry
See also.
Or so it seemed.
Cold as an Alpine peak,
Had someone dreamed?
Beyond the gates, warm and dusty,
Lay the streets of the city.
On sloping lawns
Shimmered the high pageantry
Of Spring --
Pink and gold and purple
Vivid as remembering.
Here, in the green heart
Of the gardens
All was quiet.
The river flowed silently;
An old man dozed on his seat,
A pigeon on noiseless feet
Rifled the clover.
Through the stillness
Brooded the bamboos,
And, in their midst,
Delicate as snow-flakes
Drifting through the shadows,
White azaleas bloomed.
First published in The Cairns Post, 11 April 1938
Author: Alice Gore-Jones (1887-1961) was born in Toowong near Brisbane in 1887. She was educated in both Queensland and New South Wales and worked mainly as a journalist on Brisbane newspapers. She died in Queensland in 1961.
Author reference sites: Austlit, Old Qld Poetry
See also.
