Here’s today’s picture:
Photo: http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com
OK, this image ended up all squished, and I don’t know why. Oh well. This is a long-exposure image of a musher and dogs during La Grande Odyssee, a sled dog race over the French Alps.
This picture makes me think of:
1. Stars on the ground.
2. The feeling of snowflakes on my cheeks when I’m outside during a snowfall.
3. It looks like they’re racing toward dawn.
Here’s my poem first draft.
Snowlit
dogs slip through snow,
towing night,
reflecting winter’s
mirrored light
in their starry eyes
–Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
What does this image make YOU think of? Whatever enters your mind, write a quick 15 words or less poem and share it in the comments! Feel free to comment on each others’ poems and tell what your favorite part is!
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Achromatic flashes
retrace skiers
hard earned journey.
(c) Charles Waters 2012 all rights reserved.
I love the flashing and the retracing. The journey does look so elegant and deliberate…
A bird’s-eye view
only seen at night,
a curlicue
of the speed of light.
Cindyb
Laura, I loved the idea of the dogs towing the night, and reflecting light in starry eyes. Nice!
Thanks, Cindyb–and your a curlicue/of the speed of light rocks!
Through the valley
So uncertain
Light the valley
of Darkness
To a more
Promising existence!
- Anne McKenna
It’s like an Irish toast, Anne! I love Light the valley/of Darkness!
snowy mountain,
ice and sleet,
skiing
d
o
w
n
on
f * r * o * z * e * n
feet.
I like your poem!
Fabulous! Love the form.
Thank you, ladies! I admire yours as well, especially the line about the dogs ‘towing night’ and the ‘curlicue of the speed of light.’ What a great composite poem we could write! Julie
I dropped
my bright flashlight.
Thank goodness
the dark night
will help me
find it.
Haha! Love this–makes me imaging a flashlight sliding down the mountain while still lit. And makes me think of how bright winter nights can be outside here in Minnesota, when we have good snowcover and moon…It’s always a surprise to walk outside and have it be practically daylight!
Starlight
falling like snowflakes
glitters
on the ground.
- ellie
Love “slip through snow,
towing night,” from your poem, Laura.
Thanks, ellie!
I love this. We usually compare snow to other things–great twist to have starlight compared to snowflakes. Lovely.
frozen toes
frozen nose
frozen fingers
mustn’t linger
frozen mouth
must move south
Hehe! You could sell this to a snowbird’s magazine, Pam:>)
Night Ski Song
Follow me
through snow.
Fast,
then slow.
Watch
winding light.
Hush,
shush,
white in night.
–Kate Coombs (Book Aunt)
What a great invitation, Kate. I MUST get my xc ski pass and get skiing. Being out in the snow at night is magical…
winter sky
skiers seen between Venus
and the moon
by Diane Mayr
This really captures how unearthly the mood can be outside on a winter night. Love all the EEN sounds in line 2.
Snow crunches
under my shoes
as if I’m walking
on cold corduroy.
Ha! Yes! The sounds snow makes…It always startles me when it’s dry enough to squeak!
I love the cold corduroy!
Moonlight
on midnight snow
is so bright
I don’t need light
to see the doe.
Those first two lines=one of my favorite things about winter…