Cold Weather and the Subtle Art of Wooing
A frozen little nose and frigid little toes
plague my teeny-bopper everywhere she goes,
for she does not cover tender little parts
when the winter comes and when the snowing starts.
Flip-flops on her feet, face naked to the air—
she seems to need to show us everything that’s there.
Little mini-skirts and a tiny cotton blouse
with nary a parka as she journeys house-to-house.
She says the weather’s nothing. She says she isn’t cold,
and she will not listen. She simply won’t be told
by her mother or her father that she should bundle up.
We try to give her mittens, hot cocoa in a cup.
Now once again she’s out of here with a new boyfriend
but without a coat or sweater to protect against the wind.
But then I see her logic. for when she subtly sneezes,
he drapes an arm around her to shield her from the breezes.
So even though my daughter might seem naive and daft
not taking due precautions against the cold and draft,
there’s a method to her madness. She knows what she is doing.
Instead of dressing for the weather she is dressing for the wooing.
The WordPress prompt today is frigid.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
You are top-notch good at rhyming! I really liked this a lot. WoW!
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Thanks. It has become a compulsion, I fear. Jan thinks I use it as a crutch to avoid more serious writing and she is to a degree right!
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Great poem, but I LOVE the wooing strategy! This girl is brilliant 🙂
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But she has a very bad cold. ;o)
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Ha! There is always a price that must be paid.
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Lucky for her that hers is poetic license.
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My granddaughter was like that until she turned 21 and discovered hats, mittens, scarves, and woolly boots.
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And perhaps already had a boyfriend.
I remember kids coming to class in flipflops in the winter in Wyoming. Crazy.
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