December 24, 2013

  • Winter Rain

    As the street lights hum to life
    roads reflect with orange flavored sheen
    car lights bright of red and white
    leave trails behind the wiper blades
    Mercury vapor parking lots,
    piled high with snows remains,
    white hot stains of rocker salt
    are washed away by the winter rain

    many nights of snow and skidding ice
    with no hope of warmer days
    we bundled up in down feather coats
    and followed the orange plowers sand and blade.
    we slowly walked in our winter boots
    our minds wandered to nicer days
    when winds would change from north to south
    and blow in the warm winter rain.

    DSS

Comments (12)

  • You’ve really captured the experience of driving in winter time and actually make it sound almost pretty. I like your emphasis on colors and the hopeful note on which the poem ends.

    • While out driving at night, it was really so very colorful. And I am wishing for our winter rain. Thank you for the comment!

  • Nicely done! I can relate – all our snow has melted and the fog was thick from those warm rains. Now we have a high of 18 today and the treat of freezing rain or snow… Hope you are able to stay warm (and dry) and have a very Merry Christmas!!

  • I welcome the rain in any season…it always seems to be needed!
    Your poem is so so SO visual and beautiful! I love how you ended it…something to look forward to. Even on the toughest “coldest” days of our lives there is something to look forward to! :-)
    Christmas Eve HUGS!!! :-)

  • MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
    Santa came!!!
    :-D
    HUGS!!! :-)

  • Wear layers, stay bundled. Be safe.
    Honestly, I sort of miss snow.

  • Wonderful imagery! It is interesting how those lights at night often do glow an orange. I suppose if one knows the science it’s not so interesting ;-) . I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. peace always

  • My mind has been wandering about for over a week now and still the wind drives in from the north…Happy New Year to You!

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