Goodbye, Winter.
Ciao, deep snow.
Time to dig out
my pink maillot.
Goodbye, parka.
Ciao, fleece hat.
I’m turning down
the thermostat.
Goodbye, boots.
Ciao, snowblower.
Spring is moving in.
You wouldn’t know ‘er.
Copyright 2017 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: Most snow’s melted, except for the deepest banks. Huzzah! Happy Poetry Friday! Thanks to Irene Latham at Live Your Poem for hosting.
66 thoughts on “Goodbye, Winter”
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Friendly Fairy Tales 
Lovely imagery 😊
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Thank you!
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ADIEU…WINTER BLANKETS!!!!
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Hello open windows!
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And antihistamine! 🙂
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LOL
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Happy Spring, Brenda (though I am late to the PF party)! I wish I could share some of our unseasonable heat with you North-Easteners. We’ve been bouncing around in the 90’s off and on since mid-March here in Tucson. Soon I will be ‘turning down the thermostat’ – low, low, low when we’re forced to use the AC. Great poem – and pictures! =)
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Thanks, Bridget. That is hot! We went up to 85 today. The snow seems gone. 🙂
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Amen! Farewell to all that! Although our snow is gone and the peepers are peeping, it’s still quite brown in my corner of CT. Today’s warm temperatures should change that. Happy spring, Brenda!
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Happy Spring! 🙂 My next post is a welcome to spring. My lawn is greening up after the warm weekend.
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You STILL have snow?!?! Holy BringOnTheSunshine!!
(Love your poem; fun repetition and rhyme!)
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Just the most stubborn places are harboring the cold stuff. Its days are numbered. 🙂 I’ve been playing with micropoetry on twitter. Such fun! Happy National Poetry Month!
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Ha! What a light-hearted way of saying goodbye to a serious season! It was pretty while it lasted….but I’m ready for spring and all the lovely writings that will come from you with the season.
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Thanks, Linda. You’re a lovely champion of my little fairy tale world.
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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Camus is a genius. Thank you!
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All the beautiful snow! Don’t go!! 😉 Methinks your poem shows a different perspective, Brenda. (You can tell who doesn’t live in a snow climate – and rarely sees snow!)
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I love the snow in December. Not in April. 🙂 I understand your point of view, though.
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WQe got some beautiful photos out of this blizzard, didn’t we?? And I, for one, am happy to say “sayonara” to snow, too!
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Snow is photogenic!
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I ike the playfulness, joy and optimism of this one. Amazing photos too!
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Thanks, Jama. I’m happy to tuck away my winter things. 🙂
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We had snow Tuesday, and the flowers are out anyway! Love that final line “you wouldn’t know ‘er”, Brenda. Your poem has a beautiful, celebratory lilt to it!
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Thanks, Linda. I’m glad we know spring. There is something moving about snow on a spring flower.
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Yes, I am ready to say goodbye to winter and hello to spring, though I think the two seasons are becoming well acquainted this year with the crazy back and forth weather we’ve been experiencing.
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I think there’s a poem in that comment! 🙂
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It’s goodbye, Summer for us here in the Land of the long white cloud. 🙂
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I always say goodbye to winter with joy. My goodbye to summer is bittersweet and reluctant. I feel for you. I like that, Land of the Long White Cloud. Sounds like the Land of Dreams and Angels.
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Brenda, this is so much fun! I particularly love the second stanza! What fun to say goodbye to these clothing items… here in the Southland I had just put away my sweaters when on blustery yesterday I had to drag one back out…. thank you! xo
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You would not believe how many hats, pairs of gloves, scarves and coats I have plus my husband and three kids. Always a pleasure to put them away. So much easier to get out the door. 🙂
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Hooray for spring! So long, snow.
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Yay! Hurrah!
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I love the detail of the pink maillot, Brenda. Yes, please, spring.
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I didn’t have a pink maillot before I had a daughter. 🙂 But I embrace pink these days, with vim and vigor.
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YES! Goodbye winter, don’t let the door hit you on the way out! Now, where did I put that maillot? 😉
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LOL A kindred spirit! 🙂
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As much as I want to be excited we are expecting snow this weekend. I think I’ll read this again Monday! 🙂 I want to fully get into this poem!
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Oh no! More snow? LOL If only we could hang onto that first snow excitement all winter. Shoveling and snow down your neck discomfort always make it fade away. Usually, it’s gone by February.
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I still love the snow. It’s the cold wind I hate and it is always before the rain that becomes snow. April is coming in like a lion for us! There’s a promise of spring, though. 🙂
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I hate the icy sidewalks and roads. And the wintry mix days where wind blows hail into my eyes.
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My husband will agree about icy–he is still waiting for surgery on his broken shoulder from his fall in January. And cold blowing, spitting, shooting, anything cold windy!
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My hubby fell this winter, too. And he hasn’t even seen a doctor for his shoulder yet. He digs in his toes if I nag. My sympathies to your husband. I had shoulder surgery after a fall. Physical therapy. Yay.
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He was heading into town for his other shoulder for physical therapy when he fell. Now he’ll have PT on both shoulders before and after surgery. Sorry about you’re hubby and trying to get him to the doctor. If C hadn’t already been heading in, he might have let it go because, well everyone falls, right? But the x-rays showed 3 chips off the ball end of the shoulder joint. There was already arthritis so the ball will be sawed off and more metal will be put in my terminator. Already he can’t go through airport customs. Ankle, hip, wrist, and now shoulder. Good thing he hates flying! Hope your PT goes well and your hubby is soon healed properly.
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Ouch! Hope yours does, too!
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Great poem and YAYAYAYAYAY!
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Woo-hoo for spring! I want to swim in a lake. Soon! LOL (Brrrr!)
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ha – good riddance, soft white stuff )
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See ya latah!
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A lovely farewell to winter. Let’s welcome the blooms of spring… 🙂
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Yes! A few brave crocuses have broken the ground. The wood hyacinth are poking up tiny heads. They are coming!
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Hail to spring… 🙂
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Yay!
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A very charming farewell. 😇🌹
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Thanks, Dorna!
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Houston never even had a Winter this year 😦
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Well here are a few pix after one of our few storms. Not much moisture in the air for us in the last year.
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I bet you can not wait Brenda.. 🙂 Wishing you a Happy Spring xx
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Thanks, Sue. Happy April to you!
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❤ Hugs xx
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XOXO
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Fun poem Brenda, sometimes we need to have a heart-heart with Mother Nature
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I need some beach days, some sand plovers and gulls, some deep blue skies and sand castles. I’m ready. 🙂
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Me too, I’m ready!
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Spring breezes! I hope all that white stuff is melting away for you! Blessings!
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Rain today may take away the last of it. I expect we’ve had our last snow. 🙂
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Yeah! 🙂
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