Break is coming to an end, it just started to snow, and there are "shadows in the water"

Goodbye Fall
Goodbye colorful leaves
Goodbye turkeys
Goodbye Cousins over for Thanksgiving
Goodbye School Break

Hello Winter
Hello snow
Hello holiday decorations
Hello Poetry unit at school
Hello New Gossip Girl Episode Tomorrow

Have You ever heard the saying "When one door closes, another one opens". I just feel like that really matters today I don't exactly know why though. Perhaps it is the lack of leaves and day after day of dreary rain, perhaps I am excited for our poetry unit at school starting Tuesaday. Whatever it is it just feels like walking on the horizon.

Because of this I picked out a really nice poem I found looking through a book today.

It is called "Shadows in the Water" by Thomas Traherne
I am only going to post the second, and third stanza, you can find the rest of the poem at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15839

Thus did I by the water's brink
Another world beneath me think;
And while the lofty spacious skies
Reversèd there, abused mine eyes,
I fancied other feet
Came mine to touch or meet;
As by some puddle I did play
Another world within it lay.

Beneath the water people drowned,
Yet with another heaven crowned,
In spacious regions seemed to go
As freely moving to and fro:
In bright and open space
I saw their very face;
Eyes, hands, and feet they had like mine;
Another sun did with them shine.

Sincerely,
D

PS

Thank you http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2295/2531730393_3ed7953ac6.jpg for the picture