John Tansey Poet Free verse

I Have Had My Fill of Winter

I have had my Fill with the Lifelessness of Winter		 

 

I have had my fill of this winter, 

The lifelessness in its frost; 

Fingers stiff, face pale. 

It’s cold pain in the bone 

To the black and blue bruise 

Of a cracked thumbnail. 

 

Huddled in black overcoats 

And breathing out smoke; 

It must be hard for mourners 

Lowering loved one’s 

into the bone white earth 

In the dead of winter, 

in wooden coffins, arms folded, 

 

As if they could still feel the cold... 



John Tansey 

Copyright ©2007 John Thomas Tansey

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