Lauded in some circles as the most accomplished writer of light verse that America has ever seen, Ogden Nash, who died in 1971, opines the misery of suffering a winter cold and nightlights the importance of not spreading one's germs to others when under the weather.
"Now when I have a cold
I am careful with my cold,
I consult a physician
And I do as I am told."
He begins before going on to chastise a less cautious sufferer for not being quite so careful.
Barry Tebb is a British author and poet based in the city of Leeds. He was appointed the Oxford Chair of Poetry in 2010 and is influenced by French poets such as Bonnefoy, Apollinaire and Reverdy. In "Winter Blues," Tebb is not so much venting his displeasure at the season itself, but the nature of the activities he's forced to endure as a consequence.
Edward Kofi Louis was born in 1961 in Ghana and describes himself as "a Ball-Point Pen-Artist." He's a prolific writer of contemporary verse whose work has been widely published around the world. In "Dark Winter Blues," he ponders the characteristics of the winter months and how these have the potential to affect mood and relationships.
Jim Morton is an American song writer and poet that's self-published a series of four poetry books. He says that he likes to "feel" poetry and wants his words to "grab" him. In "Winter Blues," Morton deals with the feelings of decay and death that are attached to winter and how the passing of the seasons, particularly winter, remind us of our own mortality.