Snow Nostalgia Poems

the ivy crunches ‘neath my boot
        cold sounds that crisp the winds
      ...

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The kettle's on... 

I'm thinking about the good old days as I begin to write 
Thinking about my younger years, when the ground was colored...

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The idea of Christmas snow in Michigan is replaced with fog
Hot breath exhaled to cold lollipop trees
My blurry life-sized polar bear salutes through the front...

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Beneath the mantel's alabaster gleam
Where verdigris flames pirouette, in cerulean ballet's beam...
We gather close—a familial love—
In hallowed halls where chimes of crystal laughter, stream.
Amid the...

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Summer's hunter-green fields yielded to autumnal beige
and vermillion,
soon came the frosted air and cardinals singing in
snowy pine boughs.
Deer shyly emerged from woodlands edge for feed
families...

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In the fifties we girls could not wear pants
Unless it was bitter cold, then a temporary grant.
We wore them under our dresses in freezing drool
But...

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It’s quite a thing to lay a life to rest,
to place rocks over roots rotten with age,
cover leaves once green with soil, sodden from rain.

Conceived...

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TYROL TRIP
Forty Christians from Southcourt Baptists,
Skiers,good,novice & the inactive;
On the flight from London-Heathrow,
Trusting Italy was full of snow.

Huddled in a coach past Trento,
Disembark in MSV's...

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Whether it be pernicious hailstorms,
Or be shiveringly cold snow.
It shall be in all forms,
And it comes by and goes in a blow.

Surprisingly it can be...

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Revving Up Life

Half asleep by my window
watching swirling snow
outside - memories drift
like a slide show, pictures
of my youth so long ago,
almost as real to me...

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Lately, I failed to notice
My wife had worn
A new piece of jewelry I'd bought her.
She informed me, when I asked about it,
Quite matter-of-factly, that I...

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Winters and winters ago
Away at Franciscan Univ.
My first Christmas snow!...

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Forty Christians from Southcourt Baptists,
Skiers,good,novice & the inactive;
On the flight from London-Heathrow,
Trusting Italy was full of snow.

Huddled in a coach past Trento,
Disembark in MSV's mountain...

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the warm glow of nostalgia
has yet to melt the snow
that fell upon my christmases
of childhood long ago.

instead it keeps the flame alive
and shines a wistful...

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Crystals in the air of white
             Snowflakes made of pure delight
Gather on a...

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