Slippery out There

I slid down the driveway

  trying to scrape off the van

I slid up the path

   Attempting to take the kids to school

I slid around the corner

   trying to limp the van home

Then gave up

   And drove to the shop

Ice or no ice

It is time to get the brakes done $$

Miserly me is squeaking in 55 slim words for G-Man today. Won't be able to afford any more once I get the repair bill this aft!

Contain the new

Frosty sunshine

fills me up with

winter smiles

Too few for any decent body to withstand.

Crunch, crunch

go stomping feet

as laughter peals out

over white and blue you

Ice is everywhere

treetops, eavestroughs

dripping in my heart

Carefully melting in sun with wintery edges

Why heart o' heart
should you melt this way
is not your ice intact
for another day?

It holds me close
Secure in a vise
thoughts held at bay
shards broken and diced

What? broken
why diced?
Not today with play on the way,
.... but on horizons advice.

A new day
A new year
A new start
Let go the fear

So sunshine, o' my sunshine
make me happy
I pray of you
For all the days of yesterday
  cannot contain the new