A Winter Day

* On This A blessed Winter Day Dressed for the Holidays. A pure blanched Vision awaits me so I reflect out loud.
Satin white angel hair snow, sleeps light on our street, enriches the raw pines in a virginal base coat of flurries. Families dressed for the holidays, lovely, quite the treat. There are voices singing, travel soft on a passing breeze.  
My senses are ablaze on this blessed winter day. Children's faces bright red from play rekindle memories. Remembering crafting sculptures, the element, like clay. Snow fights, where we'd take refuge behind shrubberies
Lights energized, dance with the dark as their partner. Colors, tints the nights complexion in a luminesce glow. Smoke from pillow covered roofs make my heart flutter. My days of improvised ice rinks, skating with the flow.
A holiday surrounded night ignites passions deep. Making snow angels, pulled on a toboggan down my avenue, Picking a frosted pine then wrapped and thrown into our Jeep. Heading home with that years tree to dress and decorate anew.
But it is now and time to play in this our new frosting of snow. With my two baby girls we use it to bake as if it were dough. Life is different now, as an adult with my children, I go slow.     Savor every moment, their youth a gift, repeats like an echo.
03~12~2014 Sponsor: Poet Destroyer A Contest Name: Winter Poems #1
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Meier-Hans Avatar
January 19, 2015 at 3:11 PM
Congratulations once again Maurice. Great poem.
Dietrich Avatar
January 18, 2015 at 5:02 PM
Amazing win, Armand. Miss you here today!! I hope you are having a good Sunday. Congrats too. I knew this would score tops with PD.
Stoner Jr Avatar
January 18, 2015 at 1:22 PM
congratulations Maurice on this first place win
Haight Avatar
January 18, 2015 at 9:49 AM
Congratulations on your top place win, Armand! You stirred wonderful memories. I really identify so well with your stanza. Sandra
Chakrabarty Avatar
January 18, 2015 at 3:05 AM
Let us grow with our children/ In winter or in rain/ We live not in vain/CONGRATS ON WIN. Love> rajat
Kayode Avatar
January 17, 2015 at 10:11 PM
A wonderful and excellent one,congrats on the win my friend...huggs
Mehta Avatar
January 17, 2015 at 8:50 PM
Another win, congrats on the win, Maurice
Allison Avatar
January 17, 2015 at 7:26 PM
Dropping by with my congrats again Armand:-) Hugs and love Jan xx
A   Avatar
January 17, 2015 at 7:11 PM
Armand, Congratulations, on your awesome Winter Top Win:) I super love and enjoyed all poems, some more than others. Anyways, this was XOOL and had Winter written all over. Stop by my latest blog "Winter Rose" if you'd like. Have fun, reading any poem on my list. Always & Forever ~LINDA~
A   Avatar
January 17, 2015 at 7:11 PM
Maurice, as I said before awesome... Hello, it keeps repeating like an echo... :) PD
A   Avatar
January 17, 2015 at 7:12 PM
Awesome, awesome and awesome :)
A   Avatar
December 26, 2014 at 9:03 PM
HI MAURICE, YOU ARE AWESOME, AND THIS IS NOT A tag..... CONGRATS ON YOUR WIN...LUV LINDA
Johnson-Saunders Avatar
December 22, 2014 at 12:12 AM
Congrats,.Maurice, on a great win! I love the last stanza...enjoying the moments with our children and cherishing the memories. These are priceless gifts. Love and Blessings :)
Haight Avatar
December 19, 2014 at 4:45 PM
Hi Maurice, congratulations on your well-deserved win. Wonderful memories in your poem. Sandra
Callus Avatar
December 14, 2014 at 3:27 PM
Well done Maurice! Love the memories and the whole poem! Love the ending as well. Congrats on a merited win. // paul
Meier-Hans Avatar
December 13, 2014 at 4:24 PM
Dropping back with my congratulations Maurice.
Allison Avatar
December 13, 2014 at 2:48 PM
Many congrats:-) Hugs Jan xx
Poteet Avatar
December 13, 2014 at 1:47 PM
Nice memories, Maurice. I remember going out many years to get the cedar tree in the woods around our town. Congratulations on this fine write. Excellent!
Hamilton Avatar
December 13, 2014 at 2:48 AM
great poem Maurice congrats on win hugs
Roberts Avatar
December 13, 2014 at 12:04 AM
Loved it Maurice xmas as it was, not a mobile phone or ipad in sight.....Seren
Mehta Avatar
December 12, 2014 at 8:48 PM
Lovely memories well penned, congratulations on the win, Muarice
Dietrich Avatar
December 12, 2014 at 4:41 PM
Congratulations on the winners' list. This one had so much work put into it..... well you get my (snow) drift!!!
Kayode Avatar
December 12, 2014 at 12:01 PM
A good Job that worths the victory,congtrats on the win Maurice...huggs
Deschler Avatar
December 12, 2014 at 1:47 AM
Those wonderful winter memories have now been captured forever in this heartwarming write... A terrific poem for Gail's contest! I wish you the best of luck, Maurice!
Dietrich Avatar
December 4, 2014 at 4:14 PM
Did you say you had worked on this one? It seems to have been redone a least a little . Especially the first part. Seems more poetic somehow. Is it just me? Or did you rework that first part? It's just lovely, Maurice.
A. Sharma Avatar
December 4, 2014 at 3:51 AM
Wonderful imagery Maurice! gl in contest!
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