Snow Chicago Poems

Chicago now has cause to cheer
  The Cubs are winning games this year

     I've checked things out and found
 ...

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Delight in the buds
    popping out on the trees
  Bathe in a southerly breeze
    It's over eighty degrees...

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February's gurgle's long gone
     The sound of snow melting's moved on
        From Chicago they...

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The wind chill is thirty-two degrees below zero in Chicago
Snow is being pushed around by plows that are burying cars
The wind off the lake is...

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Of my Mother and Fathers voices:
"Get up for school!"
Even then, I wish I had choices!


White blouse, blue jumper
with HFA, emblazoned in gold.
Brown braids tied with...

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Descending again from the cloudy sky
over the cold-eyed steel giants,
listening to the same old sad serenade,
the sorrowful flakes are dancing on the winding paths.
Winter's pale...

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Photos from holidays not so long ago
  Little faces pressed to the window
Awaiting the snow -- sure to come
  early December, so we...

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It’s snowing beautifully outside
crystals are flying everywhere,
The streets are covered in bright white,
and love is in the air,

Frozen windows tremble
when happy carolers are passing by,
White...

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.         Winter's Wonder Waltz

             ...

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The Four Seasons

All the world has four seasons,
why do some think they don't?
They all present differently, 
no matter where you are on earth.

We don't need...

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My one and only Uncle Leonardo
Who moved few years ago to Chicago
Came home again last week
He said, he was homesick
But then, he just got tired...

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As I recall it was December
When a blizzard closed down O’Hare
I was sick of northern winters
While the sun was shining south somewhere
I remembered in a...

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She was an itsy-bitsy girl and had a teeny kitten.
One night Daddy came in, knowing his daughter was
smitten.
He was most angry with the kitten!
The father...

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Mommy, is 'snow' a four-letter word?
  No, darling, but 'shut-up' is
But mommy, 'shut-up' has six letters
  I'm so glad you're doing well in...

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Stores are closed, shuttered
   Highways and roads uncluttered
On the water alight ducks and geese
   The air is still, infused with peace

Lonely...

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