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Definitions of Cold
- of or at a low or relatively low temperature
- lacking affection or warmth of feeling
- a common viral infection
- served without heating
- served chilled or with ice
- impersonal, objective
- depressing, gloomy, dead
- stale
- unlucky
- unprepared
The definitions of cold can take you in many directions with this challenge. Feel free to substitute synonyms. When I added the topic for this date, I expected the temperatures to have dropped significantly. For many of you that may be the case. Here in Prescott, the temperatures hover around 70 and sunny, a far cry from cold. Last year we got cold weather from December to March.
Other Kinds of Cold
- Maybe the clues on a murder case you are writing are cold.
- Maybe your streak of luck at poker has run cold.
- Sometimes I worry needlessly about waking my husband, but he is out cold.
- In the summer he asks for a cold drink.
- The waitress gives him a cold look.
- The results are seldom good when you step in cold in front of a group to teach or speak.
- It’s even worse if you have a cold and sneeze all over the audience.
- It gets more embarrassing up there if your jokes are met with cold stares.
- What if your date gives you a cold shoulder at dinner?
What’s your take on cold, this week?
IT’S EASY TO PLAY ALONG WITH #WQWWC
This weekly writing challenge runs from Wednesday through Tuesday. The only rule is to use a quote. If you want to participate, create a pingback to link your post. Not sure how to do that? See how to create pingbacks here. Be sure to link to the most recent post, not my page. I don’t see links to my page.
A Few Quotes I Liked This Week
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
Pope Francis
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson
This wouldn’t be so funny if it wasn’t written by Emily Dickinson. It made me want to write a poem.
Pantoum
A pantoum is a fixed-style French form of poetry. The second and fourth lines of each stanza become the first and third lines of the following stanza. In the last stanza, the third line of the first stanza is the second line, and the last line is the same as the first line in the first stanza. It is written in three-foot iambic lines. So the stresses are read as – da DUM da DUM da DUM
I haven’t written one of these in years, so I numbered the verses and rhyming patterns to help me along. I left them in case you want to write one.
Real Love Combats the Cold
- A The man who makes me tea,
- B Removes the cold inside.
- A Means everything to me.
- B His faults begin to slide.
- B Removes the cold inside,
- A A light begins to shine.
- B His faults begin to slide,
- A And warmth goes down my spine.
- A A light begins to shine,
- B Like a Christmas tree I glow.
- A And warmth goes down my spine,
- B To him my joy I owe.
- B His vigor and his verve,
- A Means everything to me.
- B His willingness to serve,
- A The man who makes me tea.
When the weather chills, my husband often says with a gentle smile in a little boy pleading voice, “Make me tea.”
Most of the time I find it endearing. It means, “Pay attention to me. Show me that you love me more than your blog.”
Sometimes turn about is fair play. It is one of the small ways we stave off the cold in both the weather and our marriage.
Since my injuries this summer have kept me helpless at times, this wonderful man has treated me with kindness and patience. He often has had to wait on me doing tasks, I’m sure he never expected to do.
I don’t recommend getting hurt to get attention, but if it happens, it’s reassuring to know that someone loves you enough to make you tea when you can’t do it yourself.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
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