Winter Fights Back

Thin ice shimmers
on the mini pond.
Minute snowflakes
float down like dust.
Biting cold
nips my fingers
as I fill the bird feeders.
Winter fights back.

Walking

Walking to the shops
without my hat and scarf on;
colder than I thought!

Wrapped

Wrapped
in several
thermal layers, out
in cold, fresh air.
Cycling.

Rudolph

Rudolph had gone back to bed,
poor thing had a cold in his head,
his nose had turned blue,
what was Santa to do?
Strap a headlight on Blitzen instead.

Claude

A little frivolous Limerick in the lead up to Christmas:

There once was a snowman call Claude
who stood in the cold and was bored.
That's not how he felt
as he started to melt
next day when the cold weather thawed.

Drying

Cold,
sunny, breezy.
Good drying day.
Washing on the whirly-gig,
dancing.

Clouds

A bright winter's day.
White clouds sweep briskly across
cold azure blue sky.

Cold

Cold
and crunchy
beneath my feet,
grass white-coated, icy.
Frost.

Blue-tits

Blue-tits flit quickly
back and forth to the feeders,
filling their little bodies
against the cold,
as the year slows down
for the long sleep of winter.

Late April

Much needed rain overnight
but today – so cold,
if it weren’t for the blossom
and new leaves on the trees
you might think autumn returned.