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Frigid Jupiter
Sends silver, wintry greeting
In layers of ice.
Share your harbingers of winter with the compressed language of this Japanese poetic style.
Monday, December 12, 2011
An Icy Challenge
by Julia Buckley
These lovely pictures, captured in Versoix, Switzerland after an ice storm, are a stark reminder of the cold that is coming. It reminds me of Robert Frost's famous poem "Fire and Ice," in which the speaker surmises that either theory of destruction, an ice age or a heat wave, is an equally potent agent for destroying the world. But if we were to express what these photographs show us in poetic form, I think that the spare lines of a haiku might best capture this stark, frigid landscape.
My writing challenge to you today is to compose a haiku that captures your feelings about icy weather.
Here's mine:
Frigid Jupiter
Sends silver, wintry greeting
In layers of ice.
Share your harbingers of winter with the compressed language of this Japanese poetic style.
I look forward to reading your images--they'll prepare me for the winter holidays and the frigid days of the New Year!! Remember that the first day of Winter is December 22nd this year.
And, to borrow a sentence from the wildly popular GAME OF THRONES, "Winter is coming." :)
Frigid Jupiter
Sends silver, wintry greeting
In layers of ice.
Share your harbingers of winter with the compressed language of this Japanese poetic style.
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4 comments:
Amazing pictures! I won't dare to try a haiku, but I remember after one ice storm years ago, I woke up and listened to limbs cracking and falling up and down the street, including a big one from one of our own trees, which luckily didn't hit anything but the ground.
It's a natural phenomenon that is both beautiful and terrifying. :0
diamond daggers glint
poised on branches overhead
danger underfoot
I love it, Liz! Paints a deadly but beautiful picture. (And it's a nice use of alliteration).
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