Got to fix the car’s flat tire
the grass needs to be cut
All the gutters need to be cleaned
and fix the gate that won’t stay shut
Winterize the doors and windows
wash the grime from the car
Clean off the garage shelves
just to find where all the tools are
Pull the weeds out of the garden
test the water in the pool
Change out the furnace filters
make sure the condenser is running cool
Repair that leaky faucet
find out where the dog is getting out
Go across the road to the neighbors
to see what his digging is all about
Run down to the hardware store
buy tools for a project I’ll never start
Cut down that vine out back
before it tears the siding apart
The roof needs some new shingles
I have to watch some football with the friends
Nascar, basketball, fishing, and hunting
it seems that a husband’s work never ends
Count all them chores a husband does
adds up to be about one thousand and two
It’s no wonder I’m so blamed tuckered out
by the time the weekend is through
Categories:
winterize, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
November Artistry
Beneath the artist sculptor’s hand
November shapes a changing strand
Hidden beauty seen in the trees
Now revealed through fallen leaves
Twisted branches reach up so high
Artwork thrust in autumnal skies.
Sunshine hues glow in colors grand
And paint each limb in ochre sand
Moonlit boughs shaded and set free –
In crystal frost celebrity –
Alpenglow- mauve shadows’ soft sighs -
Icy dawns in pinks winterize.
Multi-media fairyland
Bright red berries dot this dreamland
Bird nests accent this jubilee
Frisky winds kiss sculptures with glee
November’s masterpieces rise
Remembers December’s surprise!
11-22-20
Contest: November Lay
Sponsor: William Kekaula
For AJ on her 14th Birthday
Categories:
winterize, art, autumn, november, tree,
Form: Lay
October had three days of ice
with howling winds of cold
Winterize your home tight
for winter is coming bold
Get ready for soups and stews
and every type of piping hot brews
To warm the soul and ward off ills
blankets and long johns to fight the chills
Stock the pantry and fill the freezer
the furnace glow such a pleaser
Be ready to get snowed in
we are ready for winter to begin
November arrives with skies of blue
temperatures warm enough to melt igloos
A warm week in November became two
hardly a sniffle and not a sign of flu
The month went into week three
temps of sixty and over eighty
Glorious days with cool nights
my low energy bills a beautiful sight
But December is coming with a northern wind
time to winterize all over again
Goodbye to November roses and mowing the lawn
time for those things for a season to be gone
Categories:
winterize, humorous, seasons, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Migrating southward before Autumn dies;
flocks of geese split the air with honking cries.
And snow clouds dapple Winter's ice-blue skies;
as winds kiss the trees with audible sighs.
Dawn's first light ignites an ice-cold sunrise;
long-gone are the songbirds and butterflies.
Yet, some creatures have learned to improvise,
turning food into fat, they winterize.
Hibernating bears must bulk up their size,
not gorging in the Fall would be unwise.
A long Winter could lead to their demise
should the need to wake up early arise.
Inclement weather tends to brutalize;
for nature doesn't react well to surprise.
Fighting starvation and all it implies;
some species evolved to cannibalize.
Categories:
winterize, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Jewels from silver and white topaz storms adorn,
flawlessly winterize and brilliantly transform,
as frozen bling of delight and also concern
control our lives during winter's vivacious term.
Categories:
winterize, appreciation, change, senses, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Oh, Christmas Day is creeping up on us,
my decorations sure do look lovely;
on my street the blinking lights are breathless,
I sure do love Christmas;
but, I need some white stuff called snow, badly!
All the leaves have fallen to their demise,
the trees are bare but the grass is green;
on the many distant roofs- no snow lies,
snow sure would winterize;
oh, to just wake up to snow laying pristine!
Christmas needs some filigree snow falling,
a roaring fire to warm my mitten hand;
I am sure snow lovers are agreeing,
and so I am praying,
now, a spoonful of snow lays- in my wonderland!
_________________________
December 4, 2017
Poetry/Rhyme/'a spoon of snow'
Copyright Protected, ID 17-9686-16-0
All Rights Reserved. Written Under Pseudonym.
Categories:
winterize, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Moonbeam’s angelic gazes and frosty phrases
chill woven, dreamy, nature-luxurious laces,
iced in vibrant, wonderland prized traces,
to brighten all young and old human faces.
Sparkles of brightly twinkling sunshine
as stillness pervade human’s routine time.
Otherness grows as pure snowflakes chime
to glorify mother nature’s translucent rhyme.
Essence of radiance in cold grown frosty
finds snowbird’s chatter cheerful and lofty.
Woods and fields are energized glossy
to silently accept snowscapes now gauzy.
Jewels from silver and white topaz storms adorn,
flawlessly winterize and brilliantly transform,
as frozen bling of delight and also concern
control our lives during winter’s vivacious term.
Categories:
winterize, beauty, winter,
Form: Rhyme
From way up high in the cloud-covered sky
A snowflake traverses toward the ground
In its crystallized form a new season is born
And it lands without making a sound
Darkness arrives before the start-for-home drives
So much earlier it begins to get late
Convertible tops have their openings stop
And baseball teams start to hibernate
Autumn is here, the first snowman is near
Candy corn I am starting to crave
In front of our home are some skeleton bones
Coming out of a makeshift grave
Turkeys get carved so that nobody starves
Footballs are flying through the air
Kids start being good like always they should
Thinking elves might be everywhere
As the seasons change, fireplace logs I arrange
And start to winterize our place
I am wearing a smile as long as a mile
Autumn put it right there on my face
Categories:
winterize, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
coming coming coming
to winterize
old jack frost
with sleepy eyes
a draft, a chill, a cold cold breeze
enough to make the strongest sneeze
slowly slowly slowly
they freeze
the rain, water, wind and knee's
stiffening already fallen leaves
brittle they crumble with ease
staying staying staying
for a while
old jack frost till he tires
give the tree's and ground a rest
let them sleep and sleep there best
gone gone gone
our paradise
our summers green into wintery scene
no more swimming but skating the fad
there's still so much fun to be had
Categories:
winterize, seasonssleep,
Form: Rhyme
Paddle a canoe across a lake
And do it fast for heaven sake
This lake is deeper than I can see
Think I will jump in from that tree
Then I will swim back to shore
So I can do this a lot more
Come and meet me at the lake
And we will bar-b-cue some steak
Summer seems so very short
Some will pick and play a sport
When seasons change and it gets cold
I’ll winterize don’t need to be told
Time to snow-shoe across the lake
How much time will this trip take
I’ll catch some fish
It is my wish
I like all seasons
And have my reasons
I’ll do my chores
While you like yours
Categories:
winterize, nature
Form: I do not know?
You wind your will around me
spun and sugar coated stiff
to engulf and winterize me
with the words upon my lips
I'm quiet in cacophony
inside your sugared wish
as the stories you have woven
sink their soul into my hips
I listen to the printed page
as if you whisper in my ear
the silent yearnings of your heart
Coated sugar, crystal clear
You mesmerize me with your voice
from the land where you hold your pen
These words are the best laid, sweetened thoughts
in the ears of poetic men.
Categories:
winterize, art, imagination, on writing
Form: Quatrain