It’s freezing in Illinois…
A shift of the Earth, and the cold winds come, the cold of Space unleashed by the loss of my Sun…
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About Zellie M. Quinn
I first started writing poetry in the early 1980′s while in the military. I found that I could write on the back-blank side of pages of important documents all the soldier poems welling up in me. The guys discovered the poems and began to take them. This proved to be a not-so-good thing, since during inspections our site was docked points due to the missing pages of important documents.
I wish I could honestly say that as soon as I realized this, I immediately stopped all further deviant behavior…
Alas…
Other than that I was a good soldier.
Currently the poetry editor at Catholiclane.com
For more poems of mine, go to: http://catholiclane.com/author/zellie-m-quinn/
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It’s freezing cold…
Oh, God, I visited Chicago once during the winter and I didn’t think I’d survive. Those cold winds cut through you like sharp knives!
I like the poem a lot, very evocative. Tomorrow is the anniversary of my son’s death and the words of your poem could so easily represent that pain simply by change a vowel “sun” to “son.”
Indiana’s not so great either…
I love the flow of this poem; it rolls off the tongue very naturally. Very catchy as well as beautiful.