No snow yet, but I can dream and remember, and, now and then, write a poem. Winter Lullaby A cricket creaks its slumber song beside the fireplace glow, While posts and picket fence outside wear mounds of rounded snow. The winter eve is etched in white, all softness, still and deep, And, drowsy, watching […]
Apr 14, 2020
Nemo and the Squirrels
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A Ballad I’m a noble watchdog, valiant and kind, […]
Feb 6, 2020
Just a Hint of Snow
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Trees, yard, deck are dusted with snow this morning. Just a bit. It looked pretty as it fell last night, but it wasn’t nearly the inches of snow other places got. I remember walking home from the school bus when I was a child. The bus let my brother and me out at the start […]
Jan 22, 2020
Snow!
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It’s snowing in NWArkansas. How much or for how long? Weather sort of does its own thing; sometimes predictable, sometimes surprising; so, we’ll just have to wait and see. I thought this might be a good time to post another snow poem. Whether your day is snowy or sunny or somewhere in between, I hope […]
Jan 10, 2020
Wild and Wicked and Wintry
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The weather this weekend is forecast to be anything but boring. Rain today, turning to fierce thunderstorms tonight, morphing into snow tomorrow. Very interesting. The storms mean that Nemo will have a tough time of it. He doesn’t like thunder and lightning, not even a little bit. He wasn’t always this way. His being nervous […]
Mar 3, 2019
The Lovely Covering of Snow Light
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I had forgotten the beauty of snow light. It doesn’t need a source of outside light, it brightens and covers and has a soft glow of its own. I wonder if it was a coincidence that my devotional reading this morning was Psalm 27? The Lord is my light and my salvation. His light covers sins […]
