Night Beat - Near Wintertime Poem by Peter S. Quinn

Night beat to the down town street
Only a mood of its darkish night
Feeling so tender below your feet
In the gloominess of the frosty light
Yesterdays are now quite old news
With their wings of half way flight
Everything’s going away in its fuse
What comes tomorrow might be right

Shadows of evening dancing away
On to the moments of darkness glow
Meeting with daybreak of a new day
In their coming and its works to go
Breezing on rising and circling around
About fall leaves of reddish yellow
To every memory now gravel bound
In greetings of winter in its cold hello

Time beat o time how flowing you are
Giving your flickering twist of hours
Moving away like a falling blue star
Bring to windows some frosty flowers
What has been falling is still all here
Daydreams scattered in rainy showers
Autumn’s nearly out and winter's near
With darkness and love seeking towers