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five hour pizza

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the ev’ning flurries, first, before the storm
did snow all night and so the day began
with gentle, juicy flakes of fluffy form
so shovel’d as we went – as if by plan
and daring out just once upon the roads
this Sunday situation seemed so eerie
the Super Bowl, indeed, the show of shows
‘twould make a mess of things ‘twas our new theory
by granting extra time to make the trek
we’d finish off our football grub by halftime
but our consignment in the snowy street got stuck
we had to trudge through knee-deep snow at nighttime
alas, at last, we made it home for dinner
tho’ cold, in time to witness the game winner

Not So Curious The Snowbird

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not so curious the snowbird
flying off to warmer climes
when harsher winter weather hits
to leave the ice and chill behind

so it seems a sound migration
something I might find appealing, this
to leave my frozen tundra
and that cold that I’ve been dealing with

and of course the warmer summer months
can be ablaze with scorching heat
and stifling humidity
the trip up north would spell relief

‘tis a wonder, chasing weather
so to be outside all day
it’s a luxury of modern times
it’s not your standard get away

so harken now to basal times
with geese and wrens and robins
remove thyself from winter’s frost
it’s freezing soon forgotten

The Sad Song of Karelia

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The Winter War was brutal
and with carnage cold, pervasive
hardened further these
of Nordic blood and steely grit

Not pushed easily these Finns
no matter how coercive
seemed the Soviet machine
positioned to absorb this vast extent

With death and dying everywhere
of peevish neighbors now invasive
no time here for sadness as the
sense of urgency could not relent

These homicidal fields were littered
time and again so undeserved
the tens of thousands perished
cruel usurper, evil spirit

Alas, a bitter quid pro quo
its freedom proved persuasive
thus the isthmus lies; is
lost to further argument

It Happens Every Year

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The misty drizzle
     darkened sky
with three days long
     of twilight dark
this misty drizzle
     damp and cold
December’s
     dismal weather
          and
then suddenly
     some flurries seem
to swirl and spin
     and seemingly on cue
these clouds have
     started snowing
sending fluffy white
     precipitation hither
          and
before too long
     a blanket forms
this fluffy white
     befalls and now
forever be so frigid
     bringing frost
and frozen misty drizzle
     bringing winter.

 

i was walking in chicago

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i caught a whiff
          of spring just now
outside the school
          in middle march
the breeze is brisk
          but it is not cold
there is some snow
          still on the ground tho’
yet by nightfall
          dark will come the
colder wafts return as
          winter breezes back
but in this scent
          i do suspect
it won’t be long
          the icy, frigid
frost-bound days
          aren’t with us
curs’d no more