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Timmy's Journal - 14. Home and Cold: Two Poems
Cold
It’s coming – the winter with its bone chilling cold
I can feel it now; hear it through unclosed windows
Still dressed in a sweater, I shiver
And like Sam McGee, wonder if I’ll ever be warm
All the trees have undressed to the wind's shame
Their leaves blow unfettered – collected in traps
White flurries start unfulfilled journeys
Not cold enough to keep them alive on the ground
Trudge we will through drifts deep and white
Months of unending cold. What keeps us going?
The promise of Spring’s warmth
Streams of melt; Galanthus, poking up through the snow
I wrote Cold, mostly because I am. Not a great lover of winter, if I'm honest.
Sam McGee I borrowed from Robert W. Service's most excellent poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee. If you haven't read it, do. I've loved it since I was a child. My mum read it to me often along with, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. Both of which I remember by heart.
Galanthus is the Latin name for snow drops, the first flowers of spring - in my mum's garden anyway.
My wonderful husband came home yesterday - finally after two weeks away. He picked me up from work. As I walked out of the building I saw him standing, leaning on the Jeep. He walked toward me, all 6 feet, 5 inches of him and;
Home
You raised me up and kissed me
In front of everyone
What they thought mattered not
There was just us in that parking lot.
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