by Kathryn Flynn
Member since:
January 15, 2006

winter and its discontents..

February 03, 2010 12:44 PM UTC
views: 0 | 18 people recommend this | comments: 43

beaten down
beaten up
turned
inside out
outside in
every which way but right
standing on the corner
no where to run;
boxed in
left out
no way but up
cannot get there from here
been down so long
looks like up to me
sliced, diced vegematic,
flogged, slogged
standing in a cruddy hole
six feet deep, looking up
january sun lies
its icy blast cuts;
now draw a long, deep breath
a million deep breaths
chamomile tea, hot bath
back under the covers,
wake me in Spring.

Comments: 43

d g. Feb 3, 2010, 12:46pm UTC
'night!
david f. Feb 3, 2010, 12:47pm UTC
that wore me out. : ) great poem
Kathryn Flynn Feb 3, 2010, 12:48pm UTC
me, too...now back offline. I spent three hours online since my FIOS went back up last night...
Kerrell Goolsby Feb 3, 2010, 4:07pm UTC
BRRRRRRRRR!
Peter Joseph Swanson Feb 3, 2010, 12:58pm UTC
ohhhhh yeah !!!
How true...there's got to be a spring sometime, right? That wore me out too.

Mar~
Jim G. Feb 3, 2010, 1:28pm UTC
Hope SPRINGS eternal. It's getting light an hour earlier in the AM! We're over the hump - All downhill from here. Time to start browsing seed catalogs.
Ian, the social being Feb 3, 2010, 1:35pm UTC
Welcome to February.... and I even like the winter.
d d. Feb 3, 2010, 1:38pm UTC
doing a good job, turn the sun lamp on and keep writing!
Vivian P. Feb 3, 2010, 1:53pm UTC
Ah yes "The Winter of our Discontent" frist by Shakespere and later by Stienbeck
Really though I can relate to this !
Jennifer K. Feb 3, 2010, 2:07pm UTC
That was a great poem Kathryn. I'm with you on crawling back into bed until spring. Have a great day Kathryn. : )
JOHN BECK Feb 3, 2010, 3:37pm UTC
Cute & fun. An alternative is to enjoy the winter!
RedBird. B. Feb 3, 2010, 4:00pm UTC
This is an exceptional View of Winter passing and 'Spring' arriving.
Larry H. Feb 3, 2010, 4:30pm UTC
I sometime I want just pull the covers over my head and sleep till spring. but the dog and the cats, wouldn't leave me alone.
Granny Janny Feb 3, 2010, 6:37pm UTC
every day gets a little longer
every night lasts a little less
hang in girl
spring will come soon
Timothy Louis Baker Feb 3, 2010, 7:37pm UTC
You've certainly got a few lines that say a lot.
Timothy Louis Baker Feb 3, 2010, 7:38pm UTC
That's a few lines that certainly say a lot!
Jan S. Feb 3, 2010, 9:31pm UTC
You've expressed my feeling very nicely, Kathryn. I, too, am feeling an urge to hibernate.
Anne B. Grote Feb 3, 2010, 9:38pm UTC
I certainly share your thoughts, Kathryn. Great poem
subroto s s. Feb 3, 2010, 9:45pm UTC
Why are we discontented with winter? Punxsutawney Phil has given a favorable prediction!
Carrie Marie P. Feb 3, 2010, 10:22pm UTC
Wow.... I loathe the winter season... I can totally understand your piece you've shared. You have expressed exactly how I feel!
Franklin Newman Feb 3, 2010, 10:42pm UTC
Wild opposites. Were you buffeted by the winter wind?
Dennis Gilman Feb 3, 2010, 11:03pm UTC
Cabin fever? Its February; March will be here real soon :-D)
Kathryn Flynn Feb 4, 2010, 12:01am UTC
I actually wrote this a year ago after a lot of shoveling, but I find I am less patient with winter than I used to be. I am in love with the idea of living in CA.
Aman V. Feb 4, 2010, 3:50am UTC
I imagine a certain Cali gal who boasts of "Lee Roberts" at the end of her name will be doing a delighted jig at your words, Kathsie! hehehe
Aman V. Feb 4, 2010, 4:00am UTC
Kathsie, I'm glad I came upon this when I did - the timing is perfect! It acts like a wonderful counterpoint to another great post by another wonderful friend - Ruthi - whose latest offering ("Hues Suffused") brought a sense of calm flowing through me.

Yours has got the energy levels shooting back the other way again - this poetic combo feels like music! Your writing here is sharp, incisive, almost abrupt - as if you were impatient for it to get over.

Whether that impatience is directed at the act of writing while you are (almost certainly) tired, or at the winter which I know you detest - it doesn't matter. That impatience, that fretting, all the anticipation comes through crystal clear!

Wonderful poem, Kathsie! Thanks for sharing this. Hugs.
Kushal Poddar Feb 4, 2010, 10:00am UTC
No way but up.
Your simple expressions are the sharpest to outline the subject.

Houses and blocks
Angela A. Feb 4, 2010, 12:05pm UTC
I so share the feeling! I can't wait till Spring.
Kathryn Flynn Feb 4, 2010, 12:24pm UTC
yes, but at least Feb is sunny, and has spring-like days.
A Parameswaran N. Feb 4, 2010, 12:48pm UTC
..nice..and I am told on this 4th that FEB has every week day repeated 4 times; Sun-4, Mon-4, Tue-4...etc.. and it comes in eleven years.. Lucky me to read this and be on 'gather' this time!
James s F. Feb 4, 2010, 10:56pm UTC
Thanks to the groundhog we are in for wheaether.
(A bad spell of weather.)
Kathryn Flynn Feb 5, 2010, 1:03am UTC
whether and whither the weather doth warm only the sun will know.
James s F. Feb 5, 2010, 10:22pm UTC
wow! Set and match.
(From whence doth thou quote!)
Leah A. Feb 5, 2010, 7:11am UTC
Yup, that's about the way that I am feeling right now, especially with this last storm and sub-zero temperatures - BRRRR!
William Dotani Feb 5, 2010, 12:45pm UTC
The shroud of snow covers like a dormant blanket awaiting the gift of Spring. Your verse has a lovely cadence.
Svetlana Goryacheva Feb 8, 2010, 5:22pm UTC
In Russia, we generally love winter... but then we've grown accustomed to it. :-)

Hugs and blessings - S.
cassandra murphy Nov 22, 2010, 12:18am UTC
Winter makes me feel this way too :/ But I think that my favorite season is actually the fall. I'm from Boston and here the spring is always super rainy, the summer is always too hot, the winter too cold, but the fall is perfect :)
Very good poem though, the anxiety you described from your frustration with winter was very passionate and intense!

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