The Snail and Jack Frost





The Snail and Jack Frost


My life as a snail is plain

Slithering alone in the hard rain

I ask, “Have I been deceived

where are the new geranium leaves?”


It is time to go nomadic

Leave this withered garden bed

Look for a greener paddock

With a big cabbage spread


“Am I climbing the right causeway?

this windowpane is no entree

and the flyscreen ahead

looks like moldy cornbread”


My life as a snail is no paradise

Everything is topsy turvy and I am lost

And I need to wait here for advice

From my friend Jack Frost








Ivor Steven (c) October 2023

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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

28 thoughts on “The Snail and Jack Frost”

    1. Thank you Isadora … poor snail, it was the middle of the afternoon and not the time for a snail to be climbing a window … I wondered why, and I wrote a poem 🐌🤗🌏😍

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  6. HA! I love this! And I love watching snails amble along! They are amazing! And the little silvery trail they can leave behind them is magical! 🐌
    This is such a delightful, creative, fun, smile-bringing posting, Ivor…photos, poem, and song/vid! 🙂
    As the little snail pokes along, Mr. J. Frost WILL arrive in a flash and will dispense wisdom/good advice…so all will be well! 😉 😀
    (((HUGS))) 🙂 🐌❄️🐌 🙂
    PS… “For observing nature, the best pace is a snail’s pace.” – Edwin Way Teale

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    1. Haha … I’m definitely moving at snail’s pace these days …. small critters always fascinate me… the middle of the afternoon was a odd time for the snail to be climbing up my window… and wondered why?? 🥶🐌🤗🌏😍🐶

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      5. When my grownup kids were little there was a song we used to sing about a snail…some of the words were…
        “Be patient, be patient, don’t be in such a hurry,
        When you get impatient you only start to worry…” 🙂
        Ha! here’s a vid of it…the song came out in the 1970’s.

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