WINTER'S CHILL

miserable, pale and 

sort of out of sorts,

while chill days of winter

hold us down and out.

poets have a nose for knowing

how to spend winter's cold,

formidable weather days

and nights without losing

one's good sense of it all

while wind and snow

play havoc outdoors.

full disclosure enclosed;

not to shatter illusions of

grandeur. False hope on

a string of beads.

puppet work at play;

not to manifest false hope

in otherwise rising star,

while entities from dust;

mustn't be killing rainbows

while stringing hope 

along on a rope.

just found out: a longtime friend

not doing so good. 

feeling bumped out. 

so many memories...…..

winter, 2019, has settled in with a 

vengeance. harshness not seen since.....

well, perhaps not ever.

temps hoovering around zero F. 

throw in snow and wind, and

we've got ourselves a real winter. 

setting new records everyday. 

if we don't have family,

we have nothing,

and we struggle alone.

if there is one thing that really bugs me,

it's an impetuous rabbit eating all my salad,

then making moves on my wife!