Prompt | Poetry | Winter | The Challenged
London Winter Away From Home
A poem for Nancy Oglesby’s December Challenge prompt: write a poem about winter.
Sitting by the window on this noisy London bus
Winter’s against the window and causing quite a fuss
I’m writing this letter having to wear my gloves
All to tell you that I’m well and its only you I love
People are cursing the ice as they cross the marketplace
I know it's really dumb but I’ve been looking for your face
One old girl fell, I went to offer help and took her by the arm
It was very slippery I did not want her to come to any harm
I left her when she was safely across the square
Doing her Christmas shopping she was looking for a bear
Her great grandchild was having his very first Christmas
The choir by the church were singing Good King Wenceslas
I’d write a song for you if I wasn’t so fucking old
When winter comes, I sure feel the aching and the cold
It wouldn’t be a song for winter but for lovers and a moon
The cold has reached my toes they will drop off pretty soon
I miss you so much, darling, London just makes me sigh
Its good the cold will stop me writing before I begin to cry
I’ll be home soon; it’s been a terrible week
Every day away sees the tears turn solid upon my rosy cheek
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