Writer's Workshop - Winter Snow

Every week you’re invited to join us in Writer’s Workshop over at Mama Kat's by responding to one of the provided writing prompts posted each Tuesday. The directions are simple:

• Choose a writing prompt from the list provided that inspires you most.
• Write.
• Come back this Thursday and paste the URL from your post into the list of links that will be displayed…this way anyone can click on your post thumbnail and head over to your place to see what you wrote.

 Writing Prompts:

1.) Have you decorated your Christmas tree? Share a favorite Christmas ornament.
2.) What is it about that movie that makes you cry every. time?
3.) Open letter to Santa Claus.
4.) Blast from the Past: What were you writing about last year at this time? Tell us what has changed (if anything) since then.
5.) Write a poem about a snow memory.

Winter Snow

By Patricia A Pitterle

The snow falls

softly and beautifully

 in quiet whispers.

Glistening and sparkling

Like glitter

On the paper

That is my life.

Each and every time

I see the flakes

Falling softly down

To the earth,

I stop to breathe in

The wonder

Of utter coolness.

I taste the ice

Of winter in the air.

I see the colors

Of the world

Covered up

In a soft blanket

Of white, winter wonder.

I watch the clouds dance

Against the ice blue

Of the sky.

The snow is cold

On my bear skin

As I reach out to touch

And it slips through my fingers.

The large, drifting flakes

Settle softly on the ground.

I stand there,

Twirling circles

In the shifting swirls.

Enjoying for this moment

The beauty that is snow.

My Life

is much like

The crisp winter snow.

The cold of trials

Fall upon me,

Filling me with sadness

And despair.

But hope also falls

Upon this place.

Settling softly

On my heart.

It glistens and sparkles

And covers the agonies

I have endured.

Soon the adversities

Are covered up

In a soft blanket

Of love

And forgiveness.

I experience life again

In all of it’s wonder.

The snows of life

Shift and move

And fall again
Making swirls

in the pattern of the light,

Until soon, I feel faith

Settle softly on my heart.

Spring will surely

come again,

And this winter

will, eventually, pass.

It is Faith that twirls

And whispers

quietly around me.

This is only

for a small season.

I can endure.

He is here,

I am loved

Safe, in His arms,

At last.