🎄What better way to celebrate the holiday season than with poetry? Okay, and chocolate, gotta have chocolate! 🙂 As we gather around the glowing lights and the warmth of our homes, the spirit of the season calls us to reflect on the moments that bring us joy and connection. Today is the first day of winter so I’m sharing one of my favorite cozy, winter poems.
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We are in the middle of June and it’s super hot here in northern California. For today’s poem, I chose a refreshing snowy picture from the stash of visual prompts here on Poetry Pop to write about. Enjoy and stay cool out there!
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One fall day I went walking with a friend on a nearby trail. We were talking about the beauty of nature in autumn, pointing out this and that as we went along. The thought of a poem in the form of “This and That” played on my mind. So, I went home and wrote this fall poem in simple rhyme. Winter begins in just four days, so I thought it would be fun to write a poem in the same style to celebrate the season. Happy winter!
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When I saw this picture, it reminded me of growing up in Utah. Watching the Wasatch mountains turn a brilliant shade of autumn, leaving naked trees to be blanketed by snow. We always had the most beautiful snowstorms! I now live in Northern California’s wine country and although I’m a summer girl, sometimes I like to take a drive up to the Sierra mountains and say hello to that old friend, snow. (Photo, with thanks, by Tim Gouw),
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