Snow Day
“Put on your coat. It’s freezing out there.”
– My mother
I woke to the ticker-tack of sleet
on my bedroom window
in the middle of a school night
after the weatherman had predicted
several inches.
How could I sleep on this snowday eve,
more magical that Christmas?
Even in the dim dawn
there was doubt, despite
the unblemished layer of white
outside. Radio on.
Anticipation builds
like my Boo Berry cereal
floating in the milk,
as I listened to boring news.
This was Ohio in the good ole days
when weather was never the lead
and they wouldn’t cancel for just any storm.
Wilmington City Schools are closed.
I leapt from the kitchen table
knocking over my chair
thinking only of snow forts
and sled races while my mother
struggled to bundle me up.
Then bolt through the front door
and leave my coat crumpled on the ground
to be lost under still falling snow.
(Written from this month’s Visual Poetry Prompt.)
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 
I grew up back east as well. Snow days were everything!! Beautiful memories here. 😊
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Glad I was able to evoke some pleasant memories in you.
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So sweet and charming!
I was a Captain Crunch fan myself.
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Captain Crunch was a neo-colonial thug. Smash Imperialism!
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Ha ha!
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I was rather strident in elementary school.
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Yap we touched it out all weather conditions.
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BTW I have just read your 2 poems in the Hidden in Childhood Anthology..I enjoyed reading them. The teacber loved music and died young is quite sad. Maybe you wanted to cry but just didn’t want to be like the crying girls. I am not sure.
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Thank you, CB. I haven’t got my copy yet but I’m sure your two poems are going to be highlights of the collection.
BTW, this poem, Snow Day, was rejected for that anthology. I had it marked private but just changed it back to public. How did you discover it? I assume you were alerted somehow.
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I read Breaking News and Sixth Grade in the Anthology. Maybe I am psychic?!? Snow Day reads familiar. I too have 1 rejected, the “Kite” one I posted recently.
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It’s gotten a lot more Likes than one would expect over the past 24 hours for a four year old posting.
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Was that a repost?
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No, it wasn’t a repost. I just changed the post from private to public and somehow people, including you, noticed it. Very strange.
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Hmm
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