Winter Chicago Poems

Shopping during the winter trying 
to keep my hands warm by placing 
them in my pockets but how can 
I carry my purse walking down...

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Roads

Roads of concretes
Roads of tar and mortars takes
Us all around...

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Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
In Chicago we have it all
Chicago Skyline with skyscrapers abound
Landmarks and tourist wondering around

Lake and beaches enjoyed by the crowd
Festivals fill the...

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A cordless nailer with ice nail
Can quickly impale without fail
As soon as its felt
It begins to melt
Leaving police without a trail...

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For the New Year, humble, with love,
I make a wish for you, in this great time,
I send it on the wings of a white dove,
With...

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Golly , I was just thirteen and coming back from school.
In winter, in Chicago, to not walk fast on ice, was
near a golden rule!


The wind...

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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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    frozen lake steaming
    winter in Chicagoland
    barren tees dreaming


     September 29, 2020
         8:45pm PST


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I will remember you in the brightest sunshine!
And even better in the misty rain.
Or in the sounds of crunchy, Chicago snows.
Beneath our running lovers' feet!

I...

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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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ice
girl
Arctic
conditions
Chicago blizzard
cheeks hardened by sheer cold of it
her hot pink coat warms up winter’s view delectably
Enticing crazies sneaky-peek-viewing her daringly underneath prying wives eyes...

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nineseventeenPM on a winter's night asleep
 wolf wind's a-whistlin' and a-howlin'
   reaching under every blanket, every sheet
     grasping shivering...

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Blurred speech, stalled hands and feet,                   ...

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Entwine reason for two Seasons
has the weather of Chicago.
After Winter long and strong,
swiftly coming here is Summer.

Destination for vacation -
Chicago has great lake.
Lofty Downtown has...

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Comfort zones go into hibernation every winter in Chicago

Only the tough skinned, strong willed, and native-born survive Chicago

Long live the reliable snow movers and the...

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