FREE VERSE FRIDAY #2 WINTER

I've decided to join Beverly A Baird, Linda Schueler and others in a "year long poetry practice – on the first Friday of each Month," when they, and anyone else who joins, will be writing a poem based on the theme of the month and a photo taken relating to that theme.

You can find out more about this here.

I missed the January poem, so I'm starting in February. 

I didn't quite get the photo part, so after I wrote a half decent draft of my poem, I sent it off to my partner, Randy Rotheisler, and a friend, Ron Peace, both gifted photographers, asking for images to accompany it. I was gobsmacked by their submissions! Choosing one from each of them was very challenging!

From Randy Rotheisler

From Ron Peace

winter 

the old man takes a break

nods off for a bit

we celebrate

rejoicing in the milder weather

consider spring in the offing

not yet you motherfuckers

the old man laughs

another blizzard devours the land

pipes freeze

frostbite threatens exposed 

fingers and noses

cars refuse to start

whining and complaining continues

yet when

morning hoarfrost 

etches white across the land

and the world transforms into 

a crystal garden

illuminated by 

pale sunlight 

we mortal creatures

genuflect 

in the presence

of such cruel beauty