Their Winter Bed

Something about a sunny winter's slanting light
Makes one want to spend sunny lazy afternoons
In sunlight that seems just to lift world's weight
While in one's heart there beats merry tunes

Winter afternoons wonderful time for us
Living our wintertime without a scar
Worked through years that have made all difference
This wintertime is made up of things that just are


Wintertime prepares one's heart for most anything
The slant of the afernoon's sun impedes despair
Even plants, animals overcome all winter's affliction
They sway and dance with the slant fo warm air


Stand_ears erect, twitch different ways listens
As if they are holding their warm moist deep breath
Now renewed by the slanted light run the distance
To their winter's bed, where this time winter won't mean death
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011


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Date: 3/1/2011 7:52:00 AM
YES, oh yes send in the sun and some warmth. Today we are at a -40 windchill and -28 temp. Skin will freeze in minutes. I think I will stay in for the day. Put in a meatloaf for supper and maybe make some cookies.(not that we need them). I think we are all ready for the dead of winter to pass. ha ha. Have a wonderful day and nice to read this lovely poem. phyl
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Date: 2/28/2011 3:20:00 PM
Very nice, made me think. I still like summer better though, haha :)
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