My response to the secret keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt #35 The wild woods serve Jack-in-the-Green hiding place for sap blood hard branches, twigs, leafy face: Green Man of legend. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.spiritofthegreenman.co.uk
Tag: The Snowman
The final part of The Snowman
Stave 3 The snowman’s wish Was to feel the cosy glow; He had fallen in love With the fat-bellied stove And spent the long night With her in his frozen thoughts. In the early morning, There was freezing, creaking, Crunching weather And the cellar window bore The loveliest ice flowers That should fill a snowman […]
The Snowman continued
Stave 2 Indeed the weather changed: In the early hours of the morning A thick, damp fog ranged; At dawn, there came a light breeze, So icy it brought a freeze And when the sun rose in the sky, Trees and shrubs were covered in rime, Their delicate network A glittering white lacework. A […]
A new tale from Hans Christian Andersen
The Snowman Stave 1 The snowman was born To the sound of boys’ yells, The clang of sleigh bells, The crack of a whip And the clip Of hooves. Winter was so wondrously cold, It bit life into the snowman And made him creak with joy; He wished he could move, Slide on ice like […]