Eve Roper Poet Rhyme

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Rime:
Rime is that crunchy, rough snow that looks like popcorn or styrofoam that you notice plastered onto trees on windy mountaintops (making “snow ghosts”). Rime forms on the surface of the snow when super-cooled water in clouds freezes onto the snow surface, trees, chairlift towers or any solid surface. When the super-cooled droplets touch something solid, they instantly freeze; thus the spikes grow INTO the wind (as opposed to wind loading in which drifts form on the downwind side).

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Snow Ghosts

Rime, a crunchy, rough, as it glows prime snow
On the surface of all that snow, like a white cameo
Popcorn or Styrofoam plastered at zero below
Rippled from the nemesis cold wind, frozen curling  overflow
Onto naked trees and all, when it comes, Rime it does grow
On windy mountaintops that tumble to and frow
As it goes on windward side that blows
Black and white collection of snow ghosts show
A nemesis on the premises when it’s zero below

2/21/2022


A Brian Strand Rime Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand

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Neva Romaine February 23, 2022 at 7:47 AM Dear Eve, congratulations on your win in the contest with this wonderful poem. The imagery is amazing, I wanted to put on my coat by the time I finished enjoying this work of art! Be Blessed, Neva