Winter of My Content

by | Jan 13, 2013 | Motivation, Poetry, Writing

Holiday glut ended Seems like ages ago. Now, we go back to regular life, and wait. 6:30 a.m., 4:30 p.m.: You may as well be midnight. Moon boots, snow pants, down parka — dressed for a spacewalk, And I can’t put my arms down. Snow-blower a veteran Having already...

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by | Jan 23, 2011 | Motivation

Hi·ber·nate [hi-ber-neyt] verb: to pass the winter in a torpid or lethargic state.(Webster’s Third New International Dictionary) I am torpid.  I am lethargic.  The season is winter.  Thirty-four days in, fifty-seven days to go.  Motivation vanishes under snow and ice,...