- Keep It Wild And Cold -

Back with congratulations on your winner in the Andrea's contest. Way to go. Sara K

Gorgeous sijo with vivid and excellent words to descrbe an arctic region. I love and enjoyed this a lot. Congratulations on your win my dear poet friend Anne-Lise! Thanks for sharing! God bless you always and your writings. Hugs

I really liked your imagery in this one, Anne-Lise. Thanks for entering my contest and Congratulations.

I enjoyed reading your wonderful write/great picture. Good Luck... Hugs... Have a wonderful day/stay warm.................

Anne-Lise, your seasonal Sijo is so beautifully bleak as it should be in its chilliness and stark imagery! Wonderful poem! Happy Friday xxoo

"Sparkling snow crystals have yielded silver, nothing was spared" Beautiful line. A vivid description of the winter scene. Sorry, I couldn't respond earlier as I was traveling for a couple of days !

Very descriptive work. I think it must be an icy wonderland. Thanks for sharing this one with us. Now I need some hot cocoa. Sara K

Incredibly the way you described the north pole Loved it. Hugs xx

BRRRRR, but oh so well written, :)

It does seem that the cold and ice touches everything and even the sky gets involved. You put it all together. It's a powerful scene. How much colder can it get?

Very nice descriptive Sijo!

What a beautiful picture and poem to enhance this so elegantly, love it, hugs

An excellent poem. Good luck.

Very descriptive of the bitter cold you must be having up there in the north. Reads like a good contender for the contest to me. Way to go. Thanks for sharing it with us and for dropping by my page. Sara K

very descriptive and beautifully expressed, anne-lise! good luck in the contest...

Wonderful imagery and very very cold feeling!

Nice winter landscape with vivid imagery. GL in the contest.

Oh, Anne-Lise! This is visual perfection - "dark petroleum horizon," "chattering teeth, " "crystals have yielded silver!" And like your final image, you spared nothing with your creative freshness and so reflects your intimate knowledge of the many faces of winter! Such a powerful sijo! Best wishes for the contest! Blessings of health and happiness for 2024. Raising a cup of "glogg" to you! We make mulled wine at Christmas with spices. Cardamom is the secret ingredient!

Oh wow this is such a powerful and deeply impactful sijo, dear Anne-Lise.. You've impeccably captured the melancholic essence of winter and how it shakes the soul with icy breaths, freezing many hearts.. I love how descriptively you've woven the imagery here.. Absolutely brilliant. Sending you light & best wishes ~

Stunningly evocative, sijo, Anne-Lise. The imagery and flow of your word weaving, as well as the skill with which you conveyed it, is wonderful, good luck with the contest.

Brings back memories of the fjords although not the amount of snow in your picture. Good luck in the contest Anne-Lise. Tom

That looks like one cold day in the picture and your words.

This is such a descriptive sijo dear anne lise I absolutely love the flow and imagery of your word weaving and how well you’ve delivered it , your picture used here too goes so well with it! Especially love the opening how you’ve personified and the ending. Best wishes for the contest