Six Winter Poems

March 19, 2009 § Joan McNerney

by Joan McNerney

The morning mist roams
back and forth like a
voiceless wanderer.

More startling than
that windowpane red with sun
are your ice blue eyes.
 

Deep winterset night.
Sleepless stars glide through the sky
in aerial ballet.

Even Goya’s portraits
are less intriguing than faces
of frost on my window.
 

A snowflake
falls in my surprised eyes
…all is black.

In our frail world
even meteors, the eyes of heaven,
fall like dust from God’s hands.

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

Linda Civill March 21, 2009 at 9:18 pm

So fun to see the world through the fresh eyes of this outstanding poet. Every poem she writes leaves me thinking, I wish I had written that.

Tom Dolan March 25, 2009 at 11:58 am

Joan makes sense of the world.

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