I complain about cold
and the ice and the snow,
but winter here is winter,
cold is all that it knows.
I’ve lived in sunny climes
with some warm Christmas days,
but they just felt so wrong
in so many ways.
I moved back to the corn belt
and I love the four seasons,
they keep life exciting
even while we are freezing.
There’s a richness to change,
a beauty only seasons bestow,
when you have all the weather
and a midwest Christmas with snow.

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Written in response to Esther Chilton’s Writing Prompts. This week’s word was SNOW.

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