NaPoWriMo 2024 day 3

Day 3 of NaPoWriMo.

My poem

Penned this a couple days ago on a cold afternoon.

Winter

If you see me in a cotton coat
As thick as Santa's beard
With gloves on but still shivering
You know winter is here

Bought firewood to keep us warm
The cold is unforgiving
Got kerosine to start a flame
But the lighter liquid's finished!

Featured poem

Found this poem in a poetry anthrology I own called Perfect Binding edited by Alison and Malcolm Chisolm.

Let's Not Go Out On This Winter Day

by Ronnie Goodyer

Let's not go out on this winter day,
the wind is shouting at the walls,
the fire won't take that long to catch,
the softness of the sofa calls.

Let's not go out on this winter day,
let's both hold still and think of ways
to travel worlds inside our heads,
refuse the places winter stays.

Let's walk through books, let's walk through poems,
visit Fern Hill and Dover Beach;
to Yeats' Lake Isle of Innisfree,
Frost's America, Homer's Greece.

Let's drink too much and let's laugh too loud,
let's find what sheer indulgence brings;
let's clink our glasses while we can
and catch each other's hiccupping!

Then let our music resound from rooms,
as we struggle to sing as one;
Landslide, Forever young,
Ruby Tuesday, Here Comes the Sun.

Let's not go out on this winter day
but well before the flames expire,
let's sink into each other's arms,
make love before our winter fire.