A Cold Wind Comes And Other Poetic Thoughts

All poems are my original work, and composed as I sit here at my computer this evening.


A Cold Wind Comes
C.K. Armistead Nov. 20, 2013

Though today the sun shines
The horizon is thick with cloud
Though now the breeze softly chimes
Soon it will be quite loud.

One moment all is bright
The next, all is dark and cold
One dance in the spotlight
Then you are ignored and old.

Though today the breeze is balmy
And the jolly crowd surrounds you
Tomorrow's blast will come rawly
And your loneliness will astound you.

Life and weather,
Weather and life
Strife and pleasure,
Pleasure and strife.

Though today the way is clear,
Who knows where tomorrow roams.
Though now you feel no fear,
Tomorrow a cold wind comes.


Portents
C.K. Armistead
Nov. 20, 2013

The weathermen are bleating
"Tomorrow night it will be sleeting!"
Perhaps Mother Nature will deceive them
Or maybe we should believe them.

The south wind is high and howling
But the maps say the North Wind is already prowling
And before then end of another day
It will blow us all away.