It freezes
my breath back against my face
back against the wall;
stiff as cardboard
like frozen washing dragging on the line
my skin ignores my bones;
icy slush
slithers round the veins in my feet
and no warm blood dare enter;
my fingers
red and lumpy like raw sausages,
quick-frozen, cannot hold your hand;
the air
between us is frozen like a board –
sound hardly travels in such frost.
Grotesque
and unreal, I am a hoar-frost demon,
and you, apparently, are the Ice Queen.
Underground
must I hearken back hastily,
as you melt away into my past.
The sun
feebly lights our frosty passions,
and you melted away in the heat.
Night freezes,
and I spring up from dark below
but you are melted to a stump.
It freezes,
my breath back against my face,
back against the wall.
Categories:
quick frozen, winter,
Form: Free verse
A snow-filled world
is a bowl just so wide
with an intimate, friendly
feeling inside.
Earth's lonesome toil
was the dark yesterday;
soon it will stain
crystal carpet to grey.
But in world lately born,
they lock arms and shout
where the boot tracks meet
when the path's shoveled out.
Quick-frozen blossoms
sprout from hellos
and flower from fellow
explorers of snows.
A bouquet of echoes
to exile has come
in a sealed packet pocked
by a wet woolen thumb.
Unlovely dear blot,
it remembers the thrill
of a streak down the slide
of a snow-covered hill,
The trailing fine thread
of skates spinning by,
a braided ski path
binding valley to sky.
Reach out a greeting
with frost-reddened hand;
sun-burned fingers
trace in dry white sand.
Categories:
quick frozen, earth, november, snow,
Form: Rhyme
windblown skittering
across the quick frozen pond
pirouetting leaves
Survivalist's toast
whiskey in a Dixie cup
spirits on the prowl
sunrise de-icing
geese rising upon the wind
silence coats the pond
a squirrel peeks out
of the Jack-o-Lantern's nose
an orange moustache
a snake moves slowly
across the cooling pavement
hawks answer last call
the tree limbs tremble
leaves blanket the homeless
no bedtime story
ice clutches the pond
as dark shadows creep nearer
a distant bell tolls
John G. Lawless
11/8/2020
Categories:
quick frozen, nature, winter,
Form: Haiku
She sees her older kids off to the school bus
Then takes her little one to preschool
She then comes home and spends the whole day in bed
Until her kids and husband return home
And they ask "mommy how was your day?"
She says "it was a good. I did this and that. I had so much accomplished today"
She then warms up quick frozen meal for the family
And the cycle continued for years
She says adderral saved her life
She couldn't function
Of all the medications she tried, this one brought sun and rain back to her life
She can now wear her make-up, look good and get out of the house
She can now dance in the rain as her bundles of joy sprout
But she has a divorce coming, soon
And, she looks at it with a positive eye
Categories:
quick frozen, children, depression, mother, wife,
Form: Prose Poetry