Cold nights

Cold nights

Frost on the window – on the inside,
Dive down the bedsheets and try to hide,
Covered all over from your feet to your nose,
Breathing away – to warm your toes.

Frost on the windows, breath you can see,
Hanging in the air, like a ghost’s legacy,
Drawing on the glass, with fingers going blue,
Pretty little patterns, like we used to do.

Frost on the windows, when we were young,
Bedsheets and blankets hastily flung,
Curled in a ball there, head meeting feet,
Warming the cold air, yearning for heat.

Frost on the windows, all was the same,
Cold freezing bedrooms, ice on the pane,
‘Hot oven plate’, or a ‘stone jar’ in bed,
Warming your toes, but exposing your head.

Frost on the windows, that’s how we were,
Living in cold homes, with feathers not fur,
Stay below the blankets, till the room was warm,
Didn’t really hurt us, didn’t do no harm!

Mick
(Copyright Michael Westwood 2014)

About the author

Mick Westwood
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I am a 71 year old retired coal miner, who spent 30 years working underground. Having time on my hands, and in order to keep my brain exercised, I decided to try to write poetry and put down on paper some of my life experience, and my hopes, dreams and other thoughts. I also do a little gardening, but I am hopeless at housework. Much to my wife's displeasure.

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