Poems From Inside Me

Winter Longings Poem

Edmonton

A part of me always flies away

Each year when the north winds blow

That part of me longs for warmer climes

With the impending threat of snow

It isn’t at all that I don’t love this land

And all she gives to me

I just want to feel the gentle hand

Of warm west winds and the sea

And so each year I save and save

And it is truly worth each sacrifice

Then for a few precious weeks I leave my cave

For the wide Pacific for a lofty price

There really is nowhere like Hawaii

With her surrounding deep blue waters

I hope those islands last a million more years

And is there for all our sons and daughters

But once one has left this frozen rolling plain

For some reason they dream only of returning

There is something that always makes me come back again

Some deep kind of loneliness and yearning

Perhaps it is the crystal sky and stars

A thousand million out each night

Shining, pulsing Venus and Mars

Undulating sheets of northern lights

Either way I can’t leave my home for long

Even for my beloved deep blue ocean

At least I return renewed, refreshed

From a little travelling motion

It’s hard to say what keeps me here

When the tropics treat me so well

Maybe I am doomed to serve

In this summer paradise; winter hell

Leif Gregersen

November 7, 2014

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