Monday, April 4, 2011

Snowflake Bentley

As it appears that spring is not quite ready to spring, we have spent some time looking at the life of Wilson (Snowflake) Bentley and his stunning photographs of snow.

The poems created with Bentley's life and art in mind are lovely!

20 comments:

  1. Careless

    Other people,
    Thought,
    Wilson was,
    Crazy,
    Waiting in,
    The bitter cold,
    But no,
    Wilson was,
    A leader,
    To,
    The world,
    Who showed us,
    To do,
    What we want,
    Have our,
    Dreams,
    Come true,
    Keep persisting.

    MM

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  2. Flakes

    Perfectly
    White
    Detailed as
    Mommas socks
    Small as
    The period
    You use
    When you end
    The sentence
    You are
    Writing.

    MM

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  3. Snowflake Bentley

    Snowflake Bentley
    Strong
    Creative
    Discoverer
    Scientist of snow
    Snow lover
    Imaginative
    Smart
    Fast
    Quick hands
    talented

    Mw

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  4. Snow flake Bentley

    Wilson Bentley,
    Was a hard worker
    He never gave up,
    He was one special man,
    He is now a snow angel

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  5. It’s Gone

    My life,
    My life is short,
    Down,
    Down,
    Down I go,
    Landing softly,
    On a thin blanket of snow,
    You see,
    Its over,
    Its come,
    And it’s gone.

    JB

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  6. Isolated
    Where am I?
    I’m in an isolated
    Blizzard until spring
    Comes with yet
    Not a soul in sight.
    I am dreading what is to come
    As winter fades and spring blossoms
    As I turn to a trickle of
    Dirty water.
    One measly snow flake.
    How can I make a difference?

    FC

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  7. He
    Was
    A
    Shining
    Snowflake
    Among us.

    FC

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  8. Falling
    One,
    Out of more,
    Than imaginable,
    Being pushed,
    By the unseen force,
    Of wind,
    Across the,
    Cloudy sky,
    Having a destiny
    Put out there for you,
    No one cares about you,
    Only you and your family together,
    Let me be the last one down
    Let me fall on the top,
    Of that white blanket
    You think,
    Drifting closer to the ground.
    -Eli

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  9. Snow flake Bentley

    Wilson Bentley,
    Was a hard worker
    He never gave up,
    He was one special man,
    He is now a snow angel
    TD

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  10. Caring

    Although they doubted
    Him although they ignored
    Him he really doesn’t care
    They can ignore him
    But he won’t
    Stop
    His
    Photographs
    From changing
    The
    World.HC

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  11. SNOWFLAKE
    I fall
    down down down
    threw the clouds
    smack
    I hit a big
    black pan
    that
    snowflake Bentley is holding
    in his hand
    to bring us
    on the pan
    and take pictures
    of us to
    make us famous
    as can be
    NG

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  12. I walk outside
    in the frigid cold
    sticking out my tongue
    in wait
    for a white speck
    to gracefully
    glide
    onto my
    tongue

    KB

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  13. GONE

    It is the first one
    of the season
    the very first crystals falls
    from the sky
    quickly landing
    and then
    gone
    evaporated
    never coming back.

    GJ

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  14. A camera

    Camera,
    Click after click,
    Trying to capture memories,
    It could be anything,
    Like a pet, a child or something
    Funny,
    But instead all Wilson Bentley needed
    Were a camera and a snowflake
    To save memories,
    Click after click
    TD

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  15. Snowflake Bentley

    Crunch Crunch
    His feet went
    Stomping
    Through the unpacked snow

    By JF

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  16. Dust

    In the clouds
    I start as dust
    then collect evaporated water
    to form
    on me
    then I
    break
    through the clouds
    to see
    kids grabbing
    and sticking their tongues out
    to collect us
    then
    a plow truck
    all goes dark.
    DB

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  17. Never give up

    He spent
    All
    Of his money on snow
    He made himself
    a good life over snow
    He did.
    Once,
    It gave
    him a good life
    It ended his too.

    CM

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  18. Try Not To Fall

    I hope,
    I won’t fall,
    Fall to the ground,
    Because I,
    Don’t want,
    To become,
    Another one of those,
    Little white flakes,
    On the ground,
    That will surely,
    Get smooshed.
    Live,
    Live in the sky,
    As long as you can,
    Because you,
    Won’t want to fall,
    Either.

    AS

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  19. Different

    Nothing,
    Alike,
    Even though,
    We are,
    All the same,
    We fall all together,
    In one,
    But we glide,
    Silently by ourselves,
    We land on the ground,
    Exactly the same,
    Yet we all land,
    At a different angle,
    We all look at the world the same,
    Big, Scary, Mysterious,
    But we all,
    Have different thoughts,
    About what is really out there,
    We all know,
    We will land,
    But we all have,
    Different hopes and dreams,
    About what will happen,
    We all have,
    The same words,
    Stored in our brains,
    But each of us,
    Use them differently,
    But we know,
    That we are,
    Nothing,
    Alike,
    Even though,
    We are,
    All the same.

    SW

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  20. The Odyssey

    I rose up
    From
    My dirty clump of
    Earth.
    A single speck of
    Dust is in a
    Very wet cloud.
    Water poured onto
    Me and froze.
    I was now a
    Snowflake.
    I fell,
    Branches twisting
    Twirling
    And t m l n
    u b i g.
    I finally landed on a course
    Surface.
    I hear it
    Bark
    As
    I
    Melt
    Away…
    WA

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