Linda M. Crate - One Poem

New Beginning

 

the winter has come

blessed us with ice and snow,

and the grumbling

is enormous;

but the cold never bothered me,

and perhaps winter

isn't the curse we want to believe it

to be—

perhaps it's a new beginning

killing everything in our lives that could

destroy us if given the opportunity

to breath past it's expiry,

and the snow can be beautiful

glittering like diamonds

or sapphires when the blue of the sky is

lost in its velvet skin;

perhaps winter has not come to undo us,

but make us stronger

than we ever knew we could be—

sometimes the cold is a refreshing snap

reminding us that we're alive,

but like all remembrances sometimes she

can be cruel;

but i don't think old man winter is as

evil as everyone would suggest.

 

 

 

Linda M. Crate is a Pennsylvanian native born in Pittsburgh yet raised in the rural town of Conneautville. She currently resides in Meadville. Her poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews have been published in a myriad of magazines both online and in print. Recently her two chapbooks A Mermaid Crashing Into Dawn (Fowlpox Press - June 2013) and Less Than A Man (The Camel Saloon - January 2014) were published. Her fantasy novel Blood & Magic is forthcoming from Ravenswood Publishing.