POEM STARTER
Submitted by Robin Marlowe
Write a poem about unseasonable weather. e.g. A warm day in the winter, or snow in the summer.
Winter Has Come
The frost bloomed across the windows,
blinding the sun from shining within.
No birds sang, no frogs hummed.
Everything went silent.
Trees shivered, their leaves frosted blue.
The ground turned white with snow.
Flowers soon became hidden,
buried in a grave of soft snowflakes.
Winter has come in summer,
casting everything
blue and cold…
sad and stone.
The parallel imagery is done very well. Wording it as “The frost bloomed across the windows…” was a clever choice to tie in flowery images without bringing in flowers. Then, when you do mention flowers, having them be “buried in a grave of snowflakes” is a phenomenal picture. That line is especially great because it serves a dual purpose: first to establish that the flowers are buried in snow, and second to establish that the flowers are dead.
Great job!
Thank you 😊
