Joe Shoemaker, Lambertville
The snowy puffs adorning the trees like cotton in fields they seem
As after a storm that made them there passes so quick and clean
It is the Polar Vortex weather forecasters say the chill from frosty place
Punxsutawney Phil offered no defense a shadow in witnessed space
Shackleton like roaming snow bear we need to save us and not deceive
Frosty swells and snow piled hills everywhere remind and not relieve
Lord Franklin the stories of lament his seamen’s cruel fate pray tell
William Parry sailed on icy Baffin Bay his sailors dreamed their tears fell
Here the streets look not to North as folks are cold and tinged
All is needed is simple thing like robins and the first day of spring.
Joe Shoemaker
Lambertville