FAIR WEATHER FRIEND

Winter arrives as death
but when winter departs does it die?

That patch of snow
the last one
the scab
left over from winter’s fight

Arriving at night
as flurries and fanfare
It disappears in the day
silently shrunken by the sun

I was against it
but now I’m for it
because I realize it’s the underdog
that is destined to lose
at the end of the season

Author's Note

Question--should I keep the introductory two line italics or no?

Reviews

[Pryde Foltz]

I'm with Jacob. Yes, keep the italics.

Yes, poor misunderstood Winter.
He's not a call to death
He's a call to rest.
Oh'vey, your poems
always make me break out in verse.

[rutherford]

thanks for the thought of the opening. i wasn't sure if it fit in or was disjointed. i like your thought of winter as rest not death.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i would keep the italics...it is an introduction to the poem...a poem on its own'.

this is so cool...does winter die? and do we cheer for it because it becomes the underdog.

fancy timing to read this tonight...we are off school tomorrow...we have had a massive ice, sleet and snow storm in southern illinois...

i feel this one.---and i want to yell, "die winter, already, would ya?"

[rutherford]

Thanks Jacob. Don't know what part of the country you're in but this morning i may have changed my mind about winter. it's now come back to take control letting us know who is in charge.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i am in southern illinois...now you will have to write a sequel poem!

:)