Beyond Snowflakes

A robin announces spring

while the tulips are still buried in winter.

Hope sees beyond the snowflakes.

The sun shivers in its charcoal sweater

watching the world turn white as

a robin announces spring.

Flower buds stir in their loam quilts

preparing to rise and blossom

while the tulips are still buried in winter.

March winds begin to shape shift from lamb to lion

to warm its breath to melt winter from its calendar.

Hope sees beyond the snowflakes.

©Susie Clevenger 2013

 Hedgewitch at Real Toads has us writing in chains...

Here's the rules for the form:

The rules are simple: write a short poem (or single complete image ) of three to five lines (or more if ambitious, but this isa mini-challenge.)  Choose your lines and subject carefully as you are now going to deconstruct that poem and use each line as the concluding line of a stanza. That is, your first line will end your second stanza, your second line will be the last line of your third stanza, and so forth. Each stanza should have the same number of lines as your original poem. If you wrote a three line original poem, you will end up with a four stanza cascade. This sort of structure will give a slowly building, cascading effect to the piece, hence the name.

  Sunday Mini-Challenge ~ Chained Rhyme, Part 2