A Winters Day
By Ruby Hawk
@RubyHawk (99425)
Atlanta, Georgia
May 12, 2017 9:06pm CST
This is a poem I wrote about my youngest grandson when he was about five or six years old. He was a cute little fellow always looking for something to show grandmother.
James was playing outside on a winters day
I was in the kitchen baking a birthday cake
When I looked out the window and to my delight
He was staring straight up with a look of surprise
Then his voice rang out clear as a bell
Hurry Grandmother please come out here
There's something strange that you have to see
So I grabbed my coat as I went out the door
As curious as a body ever was before
And he pointed to the roof with a look of awe
Look grandmother, the roof is making fog
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16 responses
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
13 May 17
What vivid imagery....And the children never cease to amaze
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@chrissbergstrom (10767)
• Banks, Oregon
13 May 17
Awww how sweet, my nephew says the funniest things to kids have great imaginations
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@RubyHawk (99425)
• Atlanta, Georgia
16 May 17
@FayeHazel Time really does fly. Seems like mine should still be babies.
@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
15 May 17
@RubyHawk No, - no kids for me. Though I think stuff like this - if I had a kid at a young age, and that kid had a kid at a young age - I could be a grandma by now. Wow. Time flies.
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@OreoBrownie (3755)
• Commerce, Georgia
26 May 17
That's a nice poem. Children are so real in their thoughts.
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@MarshaMusselman (38659)
• Midland, Michigan
13 May 17
Cute poem and memory. I almost asked about that fog he saw and then remembered it was a winter day, so it was the result of your heat running I'm guessing? I imagine you also need to run a bit of the furnace during the winter months, or is it fairly warm there like in FLorida?
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
13 May 17
maybe the fog he saw was the smoke coming out from your chimney?
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
15 May 17
@RubyHawk i see. he has a creative imagination.
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@RubyHawk (99425)
• Atlanta, Georgia
16 May 17
@ridingbet
Yes he was always an imaginative child.
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@hostessman (11871)
• Tucson, Arizona
13 May 17
hey i seen that happen before...
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@DeborahDiane (40056)
• Laguna Woods, California
13 May 17
What a charming poem. I could just picture the awe in your grandson's voice!
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