Love Poem: Love In Winter
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Written by: Kim Rodrigues

Love In Winter

Love in Winter

                              A winterbed with ice cold feet is hot.
These snowy buds outshine the season’s gray.
Her shiver lasts - in travels she’s been caught.
The blanket’s frost - a wave on chilly days.

Her eyelashes, and icicles, so thick.
                              She’s tossed to and fro in the ice queen’s squall.
A glacial melt — he’s down — the sea moves...quick —
With thunderclaps his chest does rise and fall.

Relaxed, refreshed — like peppermint, this glove
that fits. Like soft new fallen snow - they glow.
                               Entangled legs in the leggings of love.
A wonderland of lips, their drift is slow.

                               This sleigh, a winterbed of midnight dates.
                               The iditarod sun of figure-eights.


7/6/2019
Best sonnet 2019 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: John Hamilton
howmanysyllables.com used to check syllable count
miscounted winterbed as 2 syllables; should be 3

*buds - buddies, companions, friends
**winterbed - combo of two words