Poetry Corner Winter 2026

by Larry Spiro

The following poems describe our journey into winter.  Quid pro quo best describes living in the North East part of this great country.  We enjoy the other seasons so much that when winter blows into town we accept it as payment due.  If you have any comments or poems send them to larryspiro@verizon.net

 

Lawrence Spiro 

Night walks from dusk toward a shivering star.

The stroll is slow and long with crisp snap of

broken ice and clawing clutching wind.

Darkness drip, seep, freeze dragging slow

to retired dawn reeling to awake.

Red blaze ignite the fleeting day where

second seem like minute, minute seem like hour.

Grey skyblank the evanescent light.

Night walks from dusk toward a shivering star.

 

Interrupt     Lawrence Spiro

The wind roars and shrills

blasting through the quaking sill.

 

She shifts her sheets

and moves slowly from a half dead sleep

towards the darkened light.

barely dreaming, slightly seeing

the grey night shrouded in vitreous white.

 

Pale fingers press her face

against the rigid pane.

Her dreams sift through frigid lace

and options, identity wain.

 

Shivering breathes fog the view.

Here and now, near and soon

fading silhouettes against glass,

demur to the static moving past.


Ball is Like Life     by Ethan Bell

Up and down the players go hoping to get a win
So many positions on the team
But somehow everyone fits in
Kind of like life, everyone has a role
A 100 percent of the shots you don’t take
Means you’ll never know…