December, 2022 will be one to remember for most of the United States. A poet’s reflections fill these verses while looking out a kitchen window. Always glad to be inside and staying warm when the wind chill plunges to -30 degrees.
Weather predictions hold true
More winter, never seems through
Cold, Arctic air sets up camp
Long-forgotten, frigid scamp
“Real” winter arrives in strength
Transmitting on all wavelengths
Morning light arrives, dark gray
Sunshine hiding this Friday
Landscape shivers under white
Every creature taking flight
Freezing wind never lets up
Wintertime’s polar holdup
Wind gust rocks home’s foundation
Turning on weather station
Snowy drifts growing deeper
Frosty, trusty doorkeeper
Barren trees bend against squall
No longer standing so tall
Life scatters, seeking shelter
Winter storm’s helter-skelter
Visibility nearly gone
Snow heavier than chiffon
Quiet roads, traffic withdrawn
No orders from Amazon
Keeping each home’s fire burning
Warming hearts, day keeps churning
Cup of cocoa, not enough
Snowing outside, rough and tough
Grabbing pair of heavy socks
Thawing frozen toes’ icebox
Sitting at writing table
Poet ready and able
Candle’s light dances like wind
Framing this coldest weekend
Perhaps this cup of hot cocoa will do the trick . . . along with extra marshmallows!
Big Sky Buckeye 
It’s been one for the books, no question about that. On the other hand, some of our Gulf Coast media members could be a little less hysterical over sub-freezing temperatures and no snow!
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Linda, I can relate to the near hysteria that can grip the media and a community when a winter storm waits on the horizon. My Montana experience tells me to wait and see, yet be prepared.
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Ah the winters!
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Saania, thanks for reading. Hope you are safe and doing well.
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Merry Christmas, BigSky
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Merry Christmas Michael! May the coming year share more photographic opportunities for your camera.
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Cold here in VA last night. We are blessed to still have electricity and water. Our water sputtered and went off but then started again, so praise God. Our lights flickered three times but stayed on so we had heat all night. God is good and took care of us. I pray for those without heat or electricity today because the temps remain below freezing until Tuesday. We are supposed to travel to MD today, so prayers appreciated for traveling mercies and safety. Harry will return home after the New Year and I will stay there for the month of January to do childcare. Harry calls it my “deployment.”
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I will add your travel safety to my prayer list. Merry Christmas!! 🎁🎄 😍
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Thank you. We are safely in MD where it’s even colder than VA. But we arrived safely and celebrated Christmas with our son and his family.
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So glad you made it safely!
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Vickie, I am please your travels safely landed you in Maryland. My wife and I are anxious to visit the Eastern Shore, which is her home territory. We haven’t seen her two brothers for awhile.
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Praying for Harry’s safe return home as well as your month-long stay with childcare. I like Harry’s use of the word “deployment.” His military roots speak confidently of your time away. Blessings Vickie.
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Thank you for sharing this poem with your readers. I hope they appreciate how winter looks to one who has seen many a storm.
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Nice poem.
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Anneli, thanks for reading and sharing your kind words. Blessings to you and your family in the coming year.
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Brrr … makes me shiver just reading this 🥶 So glad to be in CA with blue sky and warm air! Stay well covered, Richard. That hot chocolate looks yummy! I need to go get some with extra marshmallows!!
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We are tolerating the cold, and very thankful for the brevity of the storm here. Tomorrow temperatures will be in the 50s.
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Eileen, thank you for sharing this look at winter’s harsh side with your readers.
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POem of the season!
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Jim, thanks for reading. The storm brought the coldest weather seen in Columbus, Ohio in some time. Our coldest morning registered a steady -30 degrees on the wind chill scale. Believe it or not, I’ve experienced even colder weather back in the December’s of 1986 and 1987 in Montana.
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Yikes!! Too cold
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