winter

Remembrance Day

The loneliness of winter

That lingered through the spring

The delirious delight

That summertime will bring

The amenity of autumn

The harmonious quartet

Of rain and wind and you and I

The evening that we met

All the Songs

All the songs

All the rhymes

All the store-bought Valentines

All the fuss

All the fakes

All the excuses for a cake

All the pennies

All the wealth

All the toasts to someone’s health

All these words

Could ever be;

I know that you belong with me

Wonderland

We persuaded powdered angels

Clutched hot cocoa in our hands

And whetted winter’s whimsies

In Imaginationland

So, Thanks

So it hurt for a while,

Things felt a little raw.

So it was the kind of winter

That can take years to thaw.

So you chipped at my edges,

I feel better rounded out.

So you left me without water,

Baby, I survived the drought.

So you said I was a dream, love,

And now you’re all grown up.

So you fractured my heart:

Well, that’s how it opened up.

Springtime

Springtime lies in every season

Even now it hides with reason

To surprise winter in treason

Blueberry

The sorriest sight

That I can remember:

A ripened blueberry

Unpicked in December

Q.R.V.

At the end of the season, those minds of good reason

Will pluck malignancy

For if love should rot, winter will be fraught

With fermented Q.R.V

Dawn

Winter’s ennui

Became spring’s élan

If he was my dusk,

Surely you are my dawn

Spring Foreward

My darling, one forecast

I know you’ll remember;

Only one will ferry

The chill of December

malarky musings