WINTER BLUES

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I surely have no love lost for winter.
The freezing days discourage outdoor fun
and leave me some bored and restless children
whose yelling make me yell even louder.
Often, I find myself checking the weather,
hoping the day would bring the warmer sun.
I pray the long nights do not get me undone
while waiting for tulips to flower.

But wasn’t it in December when I
met my love? Wasn’t the ground with new snow
when he and I said our solemn vows?
Wasn’t it winter when our son’s cry
brightened the birthing room? Grateful, I sigh
reliving the joys that make winter glow.

Written for DVERSE POETS Poetry Form – The Sonnet.  I wrote a Shakespearean sonnet for the previous prompt, here,  so this time, I tried my hand at writing a Petrarchan sonnet.  Thanks for reading. 🙂

39 thoughts on “WINTER BLUES”

  3. Very unusual, like spoken voice, so realistic about being trapped inside with kids, and then I love the ‘volta’. It makes the experience turn into poetry and a different insight.

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  4. lovely take on the form Imelda, from not liking winter, you state your argument so clearly!! and then the solution was perfect, reads like a page out of a day book listing all the beautiful things that mean so much to you in the season you cannot wait to turn over. really lovely

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  16. I struggle with winter, but do try to seek the little beauty and joys. It sounds like you have some great memories to lean into on the gray days of winter. 🙂

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    1. Happily, yes. 🙂

      Just a a few more weeks for us not-so-winter lovers and we can see new growth again. Ah, except that hereabouts, snow does begin to fall in January. Eh.

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      1. We had an early snowfall in December and a dusting this month. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we don’t get too much this year. 🙂

  17. I love the turn of winter’s gloom and sadness to one to happy memories of your life. I too hate winter and really look forward to a warmer weather. Enjoyed your sonnet Imelda.

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  18. I like the way the light of Winter gradually illuminates in your words in the second stanza, bringing gratitude for even the gloomiest season of all! Lovely to read, Imelda.

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  22. I really like the story and it’s always a mystery how the seasons can be full of opposite life experiences and contradictions …birth in winter, death in the spring. In the end there seems to be balance. Sweet sonnet.

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