Robins Snow Day

Happy Valentine's Day

Snow Day

It's been so warm here for so long I'd forgotten 

the chill that seeps into your bones, 

but the powdery snow,  well, it's magnificent.

There is a Robin on the limb before me 

his redbreast the only color to break up 

the black and gray of the snow born sky.

The cold ground has grown a white beard

it blankets the warm breast of Earth 

suddenly grown hard with cold.

The apartments across from my window 

display lollipop balloons growing heavy

with the fresh white burden

 their colors

too washed out with age and wear to compete

My Santa Monkey stares at me with his beady eyes

bright with shining promises

he promises all the colors will return soon.

I'd almost rather they didn't

the bright red stop sign and ever-changing 

traffic lights

direct not a soul on their busy way, 

the snow falls peacefully almost secretly

as if hiding the mysteries of coming spring.

I'd forgotten how magnificent the snow

and the beating red of my breast.

Reviews

[h d e rushin]

I remember when our cat (Ms. Abigale) saw her first snowfall. Besprinkled on the windowsill, the robin's province, but scattered then straddled again by a squirrel . Then I realized that animals have no time line other than the changing of the seasons. And it would benefit me to think that it was the snow she was interested in and not the robin. It is how the approbate sanctions formality; how humans discard the animal in favor of the abstract. I, like you, would just rather the red flap of feathers that adapts itself to warm and cold be towed and then bowed by it's own analogies.

Happy Valentines day, and since all holidays are "made up" but not "make believe", I love the one's not yet the bloodlust to some hackneyed alter, to engrave my initials on the nearest elm......dana

[Scott Butcher]

Oh, i think this is a great verse! I'd love to read more

[Emily B]

I enjoy it if I have the luxury of a day off. Not looking forward to the morning commute this coming week

[Corset]

I remember the days of chains on tires, snow shovels and omg snow drifts taller than myself. Its been so long since I've seen this this much snow in Texas, lol, I think the last time was back to back
cowboy superbowls :P

[Emily B]

Snow in Texas. That's just crazy. It's your weather that is showing up drunk in my yard :) we're just getting ice

[Corset]

Hell froze over XD

[Coyote Poetry]

Happy Valentines day my dear friend. I loved the poem. Here in my Michigan. Very cold and icy. I need a warm day. Thank you for sharing your wonderful words and thoughts.
Coyote

[Corset]

I can imagine, poor dinosaurs , this must be how they felt back in the ice age, lol.

[The Rock And Roll Cowboy(REBEL WITH A CAUSE)]

When I lived in pennsylvania the =one thing I loved about winter is it made me appreciate spring. excellent poem. very vivid imagry