Icy Awe

Mother Nature created a captivating art feature in Heritage Park in downtown Doniphan, January 2024.

My nose is cold, as are my toes,

Layers reign, with robe over clothes.

When will the thaw come? No one knows.

Many saying, “My water froze.”

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I’ve tired quickly of TV shows,

When I turn it on, soon I doze,

Imagining , as the wind blows -

Dreaming of hums when neighbor mows.

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Reading…tiime well spent, I suppose.

Fun, suspense, villains and heroes.

Getting too hot, flinging the throws,

Then chilly, buried in burrows.

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Watching weather for highs and lows;

Drones confirm the river still flows.

Spring will bring a beautiful rose,

If after this, it lives and grows.

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A squirrel thrives on bounty he stows

In summer, and a tow truck tows

Then, too, and now for icy woes

Causing cold trials and sorrows.

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Keep eyes open, don’t let them close,

Or miss His gifts not wrapped in bows.

As you rest on warm soft pillows

Pray for all the souls without those.

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Lovely scores with harps and cellos

Don’t reach ears of all earth’s fellows.

In prayer and work bend your elbows,

Praising God for storms and rainbows.

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All of nature is in the throes -

Of icing, freezing, winds and snows.

Many plan their gardens in rows;

Mother Nature - she also sows.

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Time, in this frigid air, it slows.

Make quilts - machine sings as it sews.

Create - in poetry or prose -

Tales of intriguing friends and foes.

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Warming hearts are smiles and hellos.

Jack Frost cheers us as off he goes.

Ol’ Man Winter surely bellows

As the sun sets and the sky glows.

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My windows frame birds, bucks and does

As happ’ly these lines I compose.

One can’t price what he really owes

For the grace and love God bestows.

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