THE ICE MAN (Poem #40)



The corner of our kitchen held a big box,
 And in the box we kept ice for our food.
 A couple of days are all that we got
 Before the ice melted away for good.

Sometimes we would come home late at night
 To find a surprise when opening the door
 The drip tray had flowed over; what a sigh
 As we ran to get a mop for the floor.

Every other day it was always a delight
 To hear the iceman coming down the street.
 On hot days he was a wonderful sight
 We ran after the truck begging for chips to eat.

 With big tongs and gloves he would carry a block
 Of thick-cold ice delivered right in our door.
 Then into our icebox he would give it a flop
 Until the day when he would come back with more.

 © copyright 1997 by Jean E. Gorney
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Submitted on October 07, 2013

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Scheme XXXX ABXB ACAC XBXB X
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 714
Words 149
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1

Jean Gorney

I wrote a poem for my daughter and new son-in-law and read it at their wedding reception in 1997. People have been encouraging me ever since. I try to write up-beat and happy poetry. My poetry has been in many anthologies, newspapers, church bulletins,etc. I won a small contest once. I self-published some small(4x5)books with about 16 poems in each that can be used as greeting cards. I include an envelope for mailing. Check them out on my FB page under Jean Magill Gorney. more…

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