A Winter's Day

On this raw and wintry day
Our people creep out of bed
Lingeringly gingerly is the way
As cold afflicts the head.

Peering through protective glass
We see green vanished overnight,
Winter has trespassed on the grass
And turned our gardens white.

Fields seem merged all over
Forming one vast frozen lake
With snow icing dusted cover
Like a giant Christmas cake.

Householders shiver down
From their cosy wombs upstairs,
Looking out on the ice girdled town
Brings a tingling of back hairs.

As lukewarm light hits the icy ground
Hot news of the snows is just breaking,
Michellin Man children go cycling around
Sworn by their Mums to no overtaking.
There would be much excuse for play
Before the hunker down at end of day.