A Winter Day Poem by Cecil (cj) Krieger

I watched the sun rising
As my thoughts danced about
Like an unfettered kite
Lost in a hurricane

The smell of freshly fallen snow
Filled the world outside my door
As I grabbed my coat
And went for my morning walk

The fields
Once filled with brown grass
Now appeared like a white blanket
Haphazardly cast over the land

This was the first winter snow
The beginning of what was to come
It was like a fortuneteller speaking
In cold, icy words

Today I chose the path to the left
Which led by the ice-covered river
Which had frozen over
Several weeks before

While the sun darted about
So very high in the sky
That try as it might
Couldn't warm the earth or me

It was a winter's day
And no matter how hard I tried
Without you
There was no warmth to be found