“A Letter to Jack Frost”

©Lynda McKinney Lambert

 

Dear Jack Frost,

First,

I want to say

Thanks

for planning to come

we love to see you arrive each year

but we

don’t like you to stay long

just long enough for

ice skating

making snow angels

building round snowmen and women.

 

You’re responsible for bad weather

sinister mischief-maker

coloring the foliage in autumn

freezing cold

frigid

ice, snow, sleet

fern-like patterns on frozen windows.

 

Old Man Winter

nipping our fingertips

and nose

personification

of wintertime

icicles

dripping down

 

slippery snow-covered sidewalks

treacherous

sliding

maybe this is not a good time

we can postpone your visit this year

 

I’d like you to know

Jack Frost

We will welcome you next winter.

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Note:  This is a Pi Poem

©Lynda McKinney Lambert, June 27, 2021. All rights reserved.

 

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Published April 2022.Copyright June 28, 2021.

Lynda McKinney Lambert

 

 

 Backstory:

_A Letter to Jack Frost _

Winter is my favorite season. Jack Frost is always associated with the frigid aspects of the season. My poetic letter addresses all of the complaints I hear from people who dislike winter.  As I wrote the poem, I envisioned those negative statements with a bit of humor. I addressed each one in my letter to  the fictional character who symbolizes  the winter season.  It was march when I wrote the poem. I used the Pi format because March is the month for a Pi poem. I live in Pennsylvania and the most brutal winter weather is in March. This is the month when local residents are complaining the loudest about winter weather.

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