Oh, the Lying wind...
Kinda like a sonnet15 total reviews
Comment from Priest B. Brown
Living near Denver we at times get a layer of snow even into May. Nice thing is that it doesn't stay around too long and we have the plows, unlike Georgia.
I've been in Atlanta with light snow and people act like it was a full scale blizzard.
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2018
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Living near Denver we at times get a layer of snow even into May. Nice thing is that it doesn't stay around too long and we have the plows, unlike Georgia.
I've been in Atlanta with light snow and people act like it was a full scale blizzard.
Comment Written 03-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2018
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It is not supposed to snow in Atlanta. How dare it! Middle Georgia is another world I avoid whenever I can. Urban madhouse.
I think the blizzard of 1993 was the worst recorded here, certainly the worst in my lifetime. Thanks for reading and reviewing.
Comment from For better for verse
Enjoyed this poem it flowed along really well and rhymed nicely. Strikes a cord with me at the moment because here in West Yorkshire UK we have had blizzards all week and over a foot of snow.
" old winters teeth can give one more mad bite" great line and very true.
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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Enjoyed this poem it flowed along really well and rhymed nicely. Strikes a cord with me at the moment because here in West Yorkshire UK we have had blizzards all week and over a foot of snow.
" old winters teeth can give one more mad bite" great line and very true.
Comment Written 03-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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Thanks very much for reading and reviewing my verses. I get uneasy when the weather is too lovely too early. That 1993 blizzard set records.
Comment from Phyllis Stewart
Georgia? Two feet of snow in Georgia? In March, no less. I would have taken that as a sign the world was about to end. And I would have been wrong. Unless it was a very early warning. LOL!
March snow in Georgia... two flakin' feet of the stuff. I'll bet someone upstairs got fired over that. :)
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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Georgia? Two feet of snow in Georgia? In March, no less. I would have taken that as a sign the world was about to end. And I would have been wrong. Unless it was a very early warning. LOL!
March snow in Georgia... two flakin' feet of the stuff. I'll bet someone upstairs got fired over that. :)
Comment Written 03-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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I know it was the worst blizzard ever in this area, and one of the worst all down the east coast. The forecasters were screaming duck, and all that was said, "Wail, fer wunst dey uz rat." Some neighbors were without electricity for eleven days.
After we got a Walmart, they had tee-shirts one season "I survived The Blizzard Of 93." Yesterday was a lovely day and made me nervous...thanks for reading my misgivings
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I'm from PA, which gets plenty of snow. Once we had 4 feet, had to dig out my car but still could not go anywhere since the streets were one lane and impassable most places.
The worst snow we ever had here west of Chicago was two feet, a one-time thing, and the other winters? Sometimes a few inches and one winter NO SNOW at all.
But... Georgia? That's crazy, man. :)
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It was an experience, for sure. We usually have a couple of snows, per winter, but a six-inch fall is considered large.
Comment from damommy
"The end of winter comes apace" is something everyone is looking forward to except me. I love winter. Arkansas had a snow like that in 1976. I used to live in Maryland where it snowed a lot. I can drive on ice and snow. I've even driven school buses on it.
All of your phrases are so good, That first line is my favorite. I love how wind moans around corners. Very good imagery, Red. Smooth meter and good rhyme.
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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"The end of winter comes apace" is something everyone is looking forward to except me. I love winter. Arkansas had a snow like that in 1976. I used to live in Maryland where it snowed a lot. I can drive on ice and snow. I've even driven school buses on it.
All of your phrases are so good, That first line is my favorite. I love how wind moans around corners. Very good imagery, Red. Smooth meter and good rhyme.
Comment Written 03-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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The storm of 1993 was the worst on record in this area. Yesterday, when I wrote this, we had March wind and sunshine.
Made me uneasy. Thanks very much for reading and reviewing.
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I'm still waiting for what I call the Snow Tire and Daffodil Festival. It could happen yet. The year I bought this house in 1992, when Spring 1993 first showed its nose, I planted like crazy. Only to wake on April 1 with everything encased in thick ice!
Comment from Dolly'sPoems
The last burst of winter to remind everybody of its mighty power! Europe is suffering just now and in England they have been caught out and many have died in cars, of the cold and hospitals are finding it hard to cope. Your poem is chilling and I'm glad I'm in the warm, a sonnet without the meter, great words, love Dolly x
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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The last burst of winter to remind everybody of its mighty power! Europe is suffering just now and in England they have been caught out and many have died in cars, of the cold and hospitals are finding it hard to cope. Your poem is chilling and I'm glad I'm in the warm, a sonnet without the meter, great words, love Dolly x
Comment Written 03-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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The Blizzard Of '93 was the worst recorded in Georgia's brief history. The state was paralyzed, roads closed and electricity gone. Some areas were without power well into the Spring. Thanks for reading and reviewing my rhymes.
Comment from Sandra du Plessis
A very well-written sonnet. The weather is sometimes very unpredictable. Especially in the transition from one season to the next. There can still be a sudden cold front before Spring is officially here.
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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A very well-written sonnet. The weather is sometimes very unpredictable. Especially in the transition from one season to the next. There can still be a sudden cold front before Spring is officially here.
Comment Written 03-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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And in 1993 came the most severe blizzard in the history of Georgia. Thanks very much for reading and reviewing my poem about that monster.
Comment from Gloria ....
Man alive, that's a thick layer of snow hanging on the automobiles, Ellijay. Some provinces in Canada are liable to get snows like that in late May which is always a pain, but the reason why you're not advised to plant your garden until the May long weekend. lol.
Excellent sonnet and with some truly refreshing imagery.
Thanks for sharing.
Gloria
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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Man alive, that's a thick layer of snow hanging on the automobiles, Ellijay. Some provinces in Canada are liable to get snows like that in late May which is always a pain, but the reason why you're not advised to plant your garden until the May long weekend. lol.
Excellent sonnet and with some truly refreshing imagery.
Thanks for sharing.
Gloria
Comment Written 02-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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I found that Chicago and Alaska deal with two foot snows as if they were nothing, while in Georgia things collapse and trees crash down with a one-footer-which we usually don't get in a decade. I think that's why people move here as much as the fact there is a tiny bit of room left...thanks very much for reading and reviewing. Yes, the blizzard of 1993 is historic in the south.
Comment from Sherman541
We live in the Dakota Tundra. Ok! It is ND. Our temps up here are finally reaching Zero temp. They have been far below that mark and with the wind chills in the 20 to 40 below and even more sometimes. The snow I don't even want to talk about - it is finally melting and that is all I care about. I can so relate with poem of Winter's fate. Sherman541
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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We live in the Dakota Tundra. Ok! It is ND. Our temps up here are finally reaching Zero temp. They have been far below that mark and with the wind chills in the 20 to 40 below and even more sometimes. The snow I don't even want to talk about - it is finally melting and that is all I care about. I can so relate with poem of Winter's fate. Sherman541
Comment Written 02-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2018
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In Chicago and Alaska, where I spent some time, snow was a part of life. In Georgia, it's an oddity, one that neither nature or man seems prepared to deal with. Pines crash down on everything, people freak out. Thanks for reading and reviewing my poem, which was backwardly inspired by yesterday's sunshine and March wind.
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you are more than welcome and I understand, I was born in KY lived in TN people do not know how to drive in the snow there, but
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I understand, I was born in KY and lived in TN, people in the South do not know how to drive in the snow. Everything gets shut down there and here it has to 65 below wind chills or having a blizzard with 1/4 mile visibility before they shut things down. :) However, to be fair if the weather is bad enough in the Country, driving in is not always an option so nobody gets docked for missing work or an event. we want them to be alive so when it is nice they can be there :)
Comment from Realist101
Oh dear Lord...I hate snow. I clicked on your post and said, "Oh hell!" When i saw this photo! LOL! But great poem though, I enjoy your sense of humor even in a situation like this Red! Wish I had half your spunk! Hang in there, it'll melt? I hope? Maybe...surely? :D
reply by the author on 02-Mar-2018
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Oh dear Lord...I hate snow. I clicked on your post and said, "Oh hell!" When i saw this photo! LOL! But great poem though, I enjoy your sense of humor even in a situation like this Red! Wish I had half your spunk! Hang in there, it'll melt? I hope? Maybe...surely? :D
Comment Written 02-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 02-Mar-2018
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That's how it looked here, in mountain Georgia where we don't average half that much snow most years if you add them up.
The old lady's Blazer was young, with 4WD, and we had a blast. Burned a lot of firewood.
Comment from apky
Oooops! That's the marvel of winter. I'd turn around and not go to work!
Although I'm a prose person and pretty poor in writing poetry,
I love reading poems like this, poems that have some meaning
for me and give me something to take away with me. So it's not
a wonder that I would read an excellent poem like yours.
Thanks you for sharing.
reply by the author on 02-Mar-2018
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Oooops! That's the marvel of winter. I'd turn around and not go to work!
Although I'm a prose person and pretty poor in writing poetry,
I love reading poems like this, poems that have some meaning
for me and give me something to take away with me. So it's not
a wonder that I would read an excellent poem like yours.
Thanks you for sharing.
Comment Written 02-Mar-2018
reply by the author on 02-Mar-2018
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My account of the historic blizzard of 93 is close to the facts, so now you know how is was on the 35th parallel on a day of record snowfall. Thanks for reading and reviewing my verses on a local disaster...
