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Cold: a minute poem

The Ragtag Daily Prompt for today, is RDP SATURDAY: COLD to create prose, poetry or imagery and share.

Is posting a poem from last year allowed? I wrote this Minute Poem a year ago when I was suffering a real stinker of a cold.

The Cold

I have a fever in my head
And fear with dread
My nose won’t stop
Drip dripping drop

The aches and pains and rasping cough
Are quite enough
To make me groan
Sniff, sneeze and moan 

From a box I pull out tissues 
to wipe issues
(if truth be told)
of snot from cold.

Lesley Scoble  March 2022
I’ve got a cold | Cartoon ©️Lesley Scoble

In case my poem is an invalid response to the #RDP Prompt, here is a cold photo I took this winter. It is a photo (with no effects added) of the surface of a pond.

Icy pond surface, winter 22/23 | Photo©️Lesley Scoble
My thanks to #RDP PROMPT

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13 responses to “Cold: a minute poem”

  1. Sadje Avatar
    Sadje

    You’ve made the cold into a fun poem

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      😂 sniff
      ‘dank do

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      1. Sadje Avatar
        Sadje

        You’re welcome

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  2. drkottaway Avatar
    drkottaway

    Lots of fun! Except, of course, for the cold.

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      Haha 😆 thanks drkottaway 🤧💖

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  3. The Sicilian Storyteller Avatar
    The Sicilian Storyteller

    Great poem and photo, Lesley!
    Old or new
    still true
    a cold is no fun
    be over a done!

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      I’m gonna add that verse 😂
      Thanks, Nancy 🙏🤧

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  4. The Sicilian Storyteller Avatar
    The Sicilian Storyteller

    Haha!! Be my guest! 😂

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      😂

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  5. paeansunplugged Avatar
    paeansunplugged

    Lesley, let me tell you your poem is absolutely NOT NOT VALID!!
    RDP is a platform for bloggers to share their work.
    I love your ‘cold’ poem. We have all lived it. 😅
    Thanks so much for joining in. Hope to see you in future too. ❤️

    Punam

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      THANKS so much, Punam 😊🙏💖

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  6. Tanmay Philip Avatar
    Tanmay Philip

    Describes my present state perfectly. I love the poem, Lesley.

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    1. lesleyscoble Avatar
      lesleyscoble

      Hope you have plenty of hankies 🤧

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