Winter - With Apologies To Joyce Kilmer

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We've had four major snowstorms her in Boston in the last four weeks. My snowblower and I have had just about enough. For some strange reason as I shut the snowblower off the first couplet of Joyce Kilmer's poem Trees ran through my head. Soon...I decided to have some fun with it. Hope you enjoy it.

Winter ..with apologies to Joyce Kilmer I think that there shall never be Another winter such as thee. A winter in which snow didst fall In depths to six and eight feet tall; A winter Hugging frozen ground Muffling all prayerful sound; A winter icing Kilmer’s trees Where now the robins slowly freeze; Who would beg for melting rain Upon the deepening snow now lain. Winter makes the piles of snow But only God can make them go. John G. Lawless 2/9/2015

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