Koori-Me

 

Koori-me

A woman of the snow,
Yuki, her name, brings snow to the mountain peaks.
She sits in the snow filled glade; her icy colored hairs
fell around her in ribbons.
Her eyes as white as clouds,
a navy yukata littered with the fallen flakes.
There she sat frozen, her body preserved for eternity.
The now blank eyes show all an inner peace.

Her statue had stayed there for many years
never disturbed.
“She is the woman we have trusted since the dawn of time
for Yule, and for the snow that has fallen.” The woman said
“Why,” the children asked.
“She is the ice maiden of snow, Yuki the Koori-me.”