Fooled

I thought it was Spring

but things are not always what they seem

last night it snowed

wind whipped over my rose

will the buds survive

as weather drops below twenty five

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dVerse prompt on proverb or adage. “Things are not always what they seem” from Aesop’s Fables Bee-keeper and the Bees. I thought we were having an early Spring here in the NW. Not so.

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Can’t Get Warm

Things that make me shiver—

a windchill temperature

of minus degrees

sharp cutting edge

of the freeze

Things that make me shiver—

a covid booster in winter

feeling cold to the bone

can’t get warm

shivered so hard

I thought I’d have a seizure

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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille using the word shiver.