Workin’ in a Winter Wonderland
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(Groundhog’s Day in 100 Syllables)
As the winter wonderland
shares its annual demand
with its bright and crisp-cold snowfall piling high,
everyone who works below
and who drives through dirty snow
hopes that once the plow’s relief is nearly nigh,
all their work won’t be undone
(granted, shoveling is great fun —
freezing nose and toes beneath a threat’ning sky),
still, we’re glad the season’s here;
gladder still it’s not all year
and a groundhog will soon tell us it’s passed by.
Want more winter reads? Try some of these!
- Book Review – Flury: Journey of a Snowman
- My Favorite Things – Peppermint Mocha Coffee: My Favorite Things
- Poetry – Winter Valentines
Ken Gosse
Ken Gosse usually writes short, rhymed verse using whimsy and humor in traditional meters. First published in First Literary Review–East in November 2016, since then in The Offbeat, Pure Slush, Parody, Home Planet News Online, Sparks of Calliope and others. Raised in the Chicago, Illinois, suburbs, now retired, he and his wife have lived in Mesa, AZ, over twenty years.
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1 Comment
With the help of editor Emma Diehl we tweaked my submission for publication. It remained at 100 syllables but with an interesting form of 4 stanzas of 25-syllables each with the syllable-per-line count 7-7-11.
Thanks, Emma!