The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 4/11/2007)

[RetroLounge]

Lester Tells of Wanda and the Big Snow

Some years back I worked a strip mine
Out near Tylersburg. One day it starts
To snow and by two we got three feet.
I says to the foreman, "I'm going home."
He says, "Ain't you stayin' till five?"
I says, "I got to see to my cows,"
Not telling how Wanda was there at the house.
By the time I make it home at four
Another foot is down and it don't quit
Until it lays another. Wanda and me
For three whole days seen no one else.
We tunneled the drifts and slid
Right over the barbed wire, laughing
At how our heartbeats melted the snow.
After a time the food was gone and I thought
I'd butcher a cow, but then it cleared
And the moon come up as sweet as an apple.
Next morning the ploughs got through. It made us sad.
It don't snow like that no more. Too bad.

Paul Zimmer

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[wildhorses]

1. And the moon come up as sweet as an apple.

but, really i loved the whole poem:loveya:

the last two lines are genius:applause:

[ThomCat]

2. It don't snow like that no more.

Too bad. :(

[RetroLounge]

4. I agree...

getting buried in for days was always pretty cool...

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Retro!

Ah....the sweetness of being marooned by the snow......

laughing
At how our heartbeats melted the snow.

And the time they had for their loving...

Doesn't this speak to all of us?

The sweetness of it speaks to me.....

And for me, as well...

Thank you...:hug: