A Gallery of Artistic Expressions
featuring a Community of Reflective Writers
It is with pleasure that I unveil the Gallery of Winter Whisperings designed to showcase winter as a season of perspectives and nature as a positive vehicle for expressive voice. With the 2015 National Poetry Month in progress, the poet's voice has been raised across Twitter channels and throughout classrooms. This gallery is a tribute to digital poetry as it reflects in image and words the harmony and serenity found in nature.
While perusing the gallery, be drawn into the visual experience. Find the many faces of winter as you travel with me across the United States, through Canada, off to Europe, and then to Katmandu, Nepal to
While perusing the gallery, be drawn into the visual experience. Find the many faces of winter as you travel with me across the United States, through Canada, off to Europe, and then to Katmandu, Nepal to
Fiona Hawkins, "Winter Cold"
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Featured Poetic Form, the Zeno,
created by J. Patrick Lewis
Former National Children Poet Laureate
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Above the Clouds I by Georgia O'Keefe (1962-63) - The Georgia O'Keefe Museum
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The new verse form that J. Patrick Lewis invented was inspired by the mathematical "hailstone sequence." It is a 10-line verse form with a repeating syllable count of 8,4,2,1,4,2,1,4,2,1. The rhyme scheme is abcdefdghd. His poem above is a zeno with two zenos included.
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There is a stilled beauty in winter.
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Winter's quietude blankets the world with a swatch of white.
Sense the serenity found in stillness.
For children, winter is a playground of white
or a Chalkabration celebration
that allows for restful sleep.
Even adults encased by white winterscapes can
have a playful perspective and a smile.
Behold the beauty of winter gardens
and the wonder of the season that can be found around the world.
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Winter, one
of the four seasons
Few flowers
for climate reasons
BUT some are
STILL growing well
Looking
similar to a bell
YES,
Snowdrops are growing
THEY let
nature get going
Gust MEES aka @knolinfos, Luxembourg
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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light,
and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Winter dances in patterns. I watch its flight.
As dreamers wander and writers write.
This beautiful instrumental is a soothing background sound for the continuation of your reading.
Reflect on the wonder of winter and the lasting memories.
Sometimes, winter desires to settle and stay.
The first signs of spring spring forth, bringing hope.
Waiting patiently for thaw's softened breath,
hopes fly into a stilled sky awaiting spring.
Listen to the whisperings of nature to be inspired!
Dreams float like whisperings
among frosted branches
flanked against a winter sun.
Then, fly into a stilled spring.
It is my hope that this collection has allowed you to reflect on the beauty that exists in the winter season, rather than remembering winter 2015 as the season of extreme weather conditions.
I am deeply grateful to the REFLECT WITH ME writers who contributed their creativity and artistic expressions to make this gallery a reflection of the inner spirit. As you exit this gallery, please leave a comment for all to read.
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At your leisure, please visit the other galleries of artistic expressions that I designed and curated.
- Finding Fall Gallery
- Summer Serenity Gallery
- April Awakenings
- REFLECT WITH ME - Bringing Together a Community of Writers to Celebrate Life and Learning
--Thank you for visiting the Gallery of Winter Whisperings--
during National Poetry Month.
Please visit #digipoetry, a space dedicated to digital writing,
2015 National Poetry Month Kidlitosphere Events Roundup collected by Jama Rattigan at Jama's Alphabet Soup,
and continue to read and appreciate poetry.
As J. Patrick Lewis says,
"Poetry should never come to an end.
It should go on all through the year."
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Thank you again for viewing the gallery collection and joining my
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