Hello, Winter by featured poet Richard Peake

Hello, Winter 

Again I greet you, winter morning sun

announcing rituals of another day

as you climb over the shrimp boats offshore. 

I want to tell you that the summer was great

despite the heat and violent thunderstorms

that blasted my burgeoning garden’s plants. 

Even now I am still eating the fruits

and savoring last juices of the vines

whose biting sweetness delights my tongue. 

I do not look forward to heavy snows

though once snow men and throwing snowballs

engendered my shouts of glee. I wait quietly.

 

Sharp winds tremble my leaf-dropping trees.

So cast your shadows on my silent porch.

It’s too late to avoid cold loneliness.

 

Richard Peake

Avocet, Winter, 2012

 

 

FPL Poetry Series presents a reading with featured poets Richard Peake and John Gorman on Wednesday, January 30 at 7pm.