Write a poem about a snow memory.
The snow would fall, we would scream,
Push our faces to the window screen.
Watched the news, is it too slick?
Please dear God let it stick!
With school closed we found snow suits,
Shoved our feet in last year’s boots
Grabbed our cousins and off we’d go,
To the golf course quick with sleds in tow!
The wind was wild, our screams were shrill.
We raced our sleds down the golf course hill.
Flying down fast then up the track,
No golfers there to hold us back.
Cold and wet, we trudged home slowly,
Thoughts of cocoa kept us going.
We’d fall to the ground, “go on ahead…”
“The cold is killing me…I’ll soon…be…dead…”
At home we’d throw our clothes about
“Hang them up!” Our mom would shout.
We drank our cocoa and thawed and then,
“You want to go back out again?”
Pulled down our barely dry snow suits,
shoved our feet in last year’s boots.
Now it’s your turn!
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The 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.
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I remember going to my grandparents and taking black garbage bags down this HUGE hill behind their house…it used to be the town dump LOL. Sledding on garbage…with a garbage bag! Perfect, eh?
I hope we get snow this year. When I’m on vacation though…not when I have to be at work ;)
Love! {Besides the golf course} this was my kids’ day today – perfect!
Last year’s boots!!! So true. It was done unto me, and now, as the Mama, I do it unto mine own. :-D
And when our mittens or gloves were too wet, we’d wear my dad’s hunting socks on our hands! Those were the days!
Love this poem! I’m looking forward to having days like this with my son even though I really don’t like the snow or cold weather.
Ohmygrilledcheezus! That is the epitome of how it happens, isn’t it? After living through “Oklahoma Snowmaggedeon 2010″ last year…the kids were home from school waaaaaay too long; I’m hoping for a nice mild winter for 2011. By next year their boots will be 2 years old and they’ll have to deal with it…so there…
I grew up without snow, and it’s imagery from poems like yours that confirms I was cheated! Love it.
ahhh great poem! very clever, and so evocative… I could totally imagine “the barely-dry snowsuits and last years boots”
Jealous of snowy Christmases.
We are in SUMMER here in New Zealand…
takes a bit of work to get that Christmas-vibe going
xx
We like sledding at the golf course too! Love your fun winter snow poem! You are so good at coming up with poems. Here’s a post about our fun in the snow: http://zemeks.blogspot.com/2009/02/fun-in-snow-tobogganingsledding.html
I’m the mom who screams “Hang those up!”. I can’t stand when there is a big wet puddle of snowsuits on the floor. Last year I trained them to throw everything in the dryer. No wet floors and their stuff was dry by the time their mug was empty and they were ready to do it all over. Great poem!!
Excellent job! I’m very impressed … it totally captured every memory I have of braving the bitter cold to have fun fun fun … and then to do it all over again! You’re quite the poet!
Great poem! It just captures snow days perfectly.
Love it! Growing up in the south didn’t allow for many snow days but it was oh so exciting when they came! :)
I enjoyed your poem!! We are a little short on snow memories here in Florida but it sure is magic when a Florida kid sees snow for the first time!!
Love your poem. I started to do mine on childhood snow memories and changed it to an adult one. Loved yours. Thanks for all you do with this meme. It keeps me going and challenged each week.
This is so great!
And so very true….
Not now though.. now I stay warm on the couch and get exhausted just thinking about walking back up that huge hill.
Love this! I had fun reflecting, too…
What Goes Around Comes Around
My mom would call us in and we’d yell, ‘Nooo’. Then by the heat of the fireplace, we’d begin to thaw and the pain of our little fingers finding warmth again would make us howl. My mom would say, “I told you to come in.” That’s a vivid memory, too.
I can count on one hand the number of times I can recall snow….I do however remember ICE. LOL The South does not understand this “winter” concept other folks have.
I am not a “winter” person but your poem is lovely. I hope we can give Klaw similar memories one day.
Also – Linkytools kept giving me errors but secretly, it was lying. Feel free to delete 2 of my 3 entries. :-/
I remember those days of praying for the snow days and being outside with my cousins all day long. Now, its my kids cheering as they hear the news report of no school. Sometimes I embrace it right along with them but most days I’m silently cursing mother nature.
Look at you go miss Poet.. I love it.. I am trying to pick one to do bwhahaha you know how hard that is for me don’t ya
I am so jealous that you can write poetry. I failed that party of English class in school.
I’m so glad we don’t get snow. I don’t care how fun you make it sound. It is wet and cold and I just don’t get it.
We used to warm our boots and mittens on the radiator overnight if snow was forecast, hoping to get to use them. But here in N Ireland, we rarely had more than an inch or two – but didn’t stop us trying (in vain) to build a snowman!
Thats a fun poem!
Clever and festive!
Having never experienced the snow because it’s never snowed where I live, this poem was amazing in helping me feel what it must have been like!
So much fun but so freakin’ cold!!!
Loved the fun poem!!
Love the poem! I can’t wait to take my kids to the hill by my high school so that they can go sledding this year! I am not a big fan of the cold but I will suck it up just for them.
Love the poem. I have only been in snow once living in FL.
I admire anyone who can write a good poem. Well done.
And now I’m cold.
Ha! The half-wet clothes and boots will never be forgotten. Thanks for reminding me of that feeling of being willing to get colder and colder and minding but refusing to go inside to stay.
This one was so much fun. :) Happy Holidays everyone.
awesome. brings back such great memories.
Reminds me of the days when we used to go to the parking lot near our house and dig tunnels in the drifts. I swear that I got frost bite because the snow would get inside my boots and I’d have to walk home in cold wet feet.
Oh, I love this. It is so true. Last years boots, we save ours for so many years that the grandkids have come back to wear them!!! Nothing like a day of sledding!
Love, love, love this one! Too cute!
Wow, sensory flashback, putting hands back in cold, wet mittens and feet back in cold, wet boots…