{"id":10596,"date":"2025-11-29T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithhopeandfiction.com\/content\/?p=10596"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T18:17:51","slug":"snow-child-2-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithhopeandfiction.com\/content\/snow-child-2-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow & Child – 2 Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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by Joseph Roque<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>THE SILENT NOISE OF SNOW<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I dreamt a memory
of my youth, in winter,
during snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flakes on my tongue, all
worries undone, crunch
underfoot, each step
hard put. Every exhale
a fog-dragon\u2019s tail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awkwardly, it swirled
and stuttered, clumsily
it flipped and fluttered,
soundlessly, mutely,
dead-calm quietly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I chased the silent noise
it issued, and catching
it, draped myself in a
shivering shawl of
winter\u2019s shredded tissue.<\/p>\n\n\n

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FIND THE CHILD<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Childhood lost,
how much of me was forfeited when
innocence was stolen; how much
of me surrendered to adulthood\u2019s
duplicity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back then,
love was pure and elemental,
simple as an innocent embrace;
carefree as a happy song\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

steadfast smile always on my face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pity, when I discovered
the child in me was dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, to be that sweet child again,
arms always open for affection;
never entertaining thoughts of hate
or the color of skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, I grew, joined the ranks
of all the other unglued, confused clones
just trying to get by, trying every which
way to flee my new self; willing to sacrifice
everything, regardless of the cost\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To find the child I so happily used to be,
the child I so wanted to remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Joseph Roque<\/strong> is a poet who frequently writes about life, love, loneliness, growing older, alienation, and the joys of youth. His poems have appeared in Psychopoetica<\/em>, Mad Swirl<\/em>, Aphelion<\/em>, Death Head Grin<\/em>, The Poet\u2019s Haven<\/em>, RagMag<\/em>, and Cerebration<\/em>. His latest book is Ashes And Excuses<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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