WINTER STORM
Ice on the lake roars a protest
at winter's charge.
Trees crack, nails split
From houses,
Wind throbs through telephone wires.
While the blizzard negates
the prairie's existence
in a world shattered by sound,
storm explodes in me.
Copyright 1975 by Mildred A. Rose,
all rights reserved.
Originally published by The Music House Press.
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