I feel like sharing winter thoughts...
Winter Evening Outdoors
Winter evening outdoors;
I feel snowflakes
On my face,
Hear winter’s wind
Whipping in the treetops.
I long for
The warmth of spring rain;
Winter evening outdoors.
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Fresh Snow
In the slow-coming post storm
Morning light I compare you
To tracks in the fresh snow.
I don’t love and I don’t hate,
But you are that intrusion
That disturbs my morning
Coffee and reading, a steady
Drip of a leaky faucet that
I should fix, but probably
Will leave on the to-do list
Until it becomes the kind of
That throbs like a toothache
Left too long unattended in
The slow-coming morning light.
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World Of Diamonds
The ocean was a 'World of Diamonds.'
That's what the gleaming poster
taped to the frosted window said.
A glowing white leviathan
cruise ship
placidly bobbed.
In an inset photo,
smiling bronzed children waved from
pristine sands.
In small print:
'For $2300, plus the price of
an airline ticket to Miami,
you and a partner can soon enjoy
the tropical sights of beautiful
Trinidad and Tobago.'
I kicked dirty snow and ice
off my insulated boots,
unzipped my jacket
and loosened my scarf
while shuffling past the travel agency,
further into the mall.
Anywhere
but this frigid wasteland
would be nice now.
The ocean was a 'World of Diamonds.'
That's what the poster said.
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Frozen Tuesday
Wind chills are still well below zero
Shaking, we wonder at the news.
What do the warming experts say
when thermometer mercury disappears?
Shaking, we wonder at the news.
Al Roker is laughing and grinning
saying, "bundle up Atlanta! brrrr!"
Atlanta? What about this ice box?
What do the warming experts say
on the coldest day since 1956?
Is it some phenomenon or fluke
or are our old gauges at fault?
When thermometer mercury disappears
we talk about ice ages, vacations,
and say, "cold enough for you yet?"
Then we wander forth, cursing winter.
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