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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