Snow by auntietk
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Description
Stark
Snow covered branches
Seem lacy messages
Written
In Winter's script
Paw prints
In last night's snow
Tell their own story
In a city of hills
Snow and ice on the streets
Is more than just
An annoyance
Dim light
Snow on snow
Soft dark nights
Flakes falling under streetlights
Sun comes out
And my summer table
Wears a tall hat
Icicles hang from the eaves
Dripping diamonds
Sparkle and flash
Please
Stand somewhere else
...........
The December challenge for the Writer's Gallery is SNOW. This isn't a contest, only a challenge to see what you can come up with when given a single topic and a limited amount of time.
I got the idea for doing vignettes from Chip. He's created another wonderful world, and in this one people leave small stories lying around, carved on stones. I read his latest post and was immediately inspired!
Comments (16)
Great collection of short poems
Brilliant! Just brilliant.
Superb writing Tara. God Bless.
Oh, I love these! They are so perfect! All of them are little gems, a bit like actual snowflakes: they're all so distinct from each other, but they're all the same thing in that big sense that "snow" is snow, but its made up of no-two-things-that-look-alike and yet they are all alike because they're distinct. It's so circular! I love the idea that pawprints in snow tell their own stories! How super! All of these are marvelous, and I like the way it spirals off in those directions that Ancient Egyptian poetry tended to spiral off in unexpected directions. I particularly got that with the last poem. It is wonderfully descriptive and ethereal (despite being concrete) and then it ends with that humdinger of a close. "Please/stand somewhere else." I laughed, because I got the vague idea that on a day after shoveling snow and getting cold fingers, Shepat would say such a thing to the snow about to fall from the clouds above. Being a guy from Gwot, that's probably something he'd say TO the snow and ice." These are brilliant and I'm glad to see them! It's probably not unexpected, but I got inspired from THESE...but then, I think that's actually the idea behind Gwotians leaving stuff on stones for other people to find...somebody did it, inspired somebody else, who then inspired somebody else, and the next thing you know, you have all of these stories laying around (literally) all over the place. I've still got the wonderful images you've conjured in my mind, and they're gonna stay there a while. Especially the nicely mysterious ones...and a summer table wearing a tall hat, as summer tables should do in winter! I love the image also. It's the epitome of snow and its so elegant. This is brilliant!
Wonderful stuff...your writing and snow too. I read your words and distinct images pop immediately into my mind's eye. Best of all, I get to hang out with the author:-)
Love your words.
Very eloquent words Tara.
Awesome :-) Pitty I am not a writer :)
I really like these.
I really like it I should check it out but not in much of a mood too do anything these days love your poems or vignettes: you should enter it:) Hugs Susan~
Oooooh! I love how each little poetic vignette carries one to the next .. a little trail of words in the snow .. to follow .. being careful to not stand there ... to think that I thought the white thumbnail would open to a snowy visual scene, and it did, but now the way I expected! This is a little jewel to be treasured and savored through the winter
So good to read more of your words; and these are just as sweet and pretty as can be!!
Water drips from my roof Drop by drop turned to ice By Mother Nature's icy breath Careful lady! You'll put out someone's eye Poems written in the snow. Love the small bites.
Great collection of poems!
A very cool idea, Tara! You did a great job with this concept - most excellent, my friend! Hope you and Bill have a wonderful Christmas! Hope to have a little surprise for you this week, by the way... wink
even the print speaks a story wonderful creations warm hugs, Linda Kaye