Today is Quadrille Monday at dVerse. A quadrille is a poem in any form with exactly 44 words (excluding the title) and using the prompted word. Dee (Whimzy Gizmo) is the pubtender at dVerse Poets Pub. She has given us the world “fire” to use in the quadrille. I am actually doing non-traditional in the ending haiku with not keeping to the 5-7-5 syllable count. I am publishing on dVerse Poets Pub
Snow like Fire
It started out as rain but quickly turned into heavy snow. Daffodils show like flames against the white. My flowering quince smolders like a slow fire in the falling snow.
snow falls like freezing fire–
flowers show against white –
burns slowly in the cold
copyright kanzensakura
Mar 12, 2018 @ 18:27:19
Snow fire, slow fire. Wonderful.
Mar 12, 2018 @ 18:37:37
I love this. Although, really sick of the white crap already. Looking forward to writing about Spring. LOL! 🙂
Mar 12, 2018 @ 18:39:23
We have had little snow this year so it has been most enjoyable watching it and walking around in it.
Mar 12, 2018 @ 18:41:47
For many years we only had to suffer a little. This year was a cruel joke. I’m jealous. LOL! 🙂
Mar 12, 2018 @ 20:01:14
quince smoldering – those sweet pink blooms covered in snow! – it is beautiful …
Mar 12, 2018 @ 20:07:52
It was supposed to rsin today…
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Mar 12, 2018 @ 21:22:34
Love the freezing fire along with the flowers pushing through the snow!
Dwight
Mar 12, 2018 @ 21:36:34
That’s a beautiful photo. The hope the trees are OK. It should warm up soon.
Mar 12, 2018 @ 21:59:46
Thank you Frank. The trees are fine and the quince is beyond hardy. It came from England many ancestors ago and through cuttings, have birthed hundreds of itself. ??
Mar 13, 2018 @ 00:02:05
I love “snow falls like freezing fire.” Wonderful.
Mar 13, 2018 @ 01:25:38
What hardy little flowers. Maybe it’s the fire in them making them so hardy
Mar 13, 2018 @ 02:36:58
Delightful. Life burns on as candles and as fire. Lovely contrasts here.
Mar 13, 2018 @ 03:48:34
This is stunning!💖 I love “snow falls like freezing fire.”
Mar 13, 2018 @ 04:07:45
I love the flower fire of daffodils and quince, Toni. I have both in my garden but no flowers as yet. Apparently we’re expecting more snow to fall like freezing fire at the weekend.
Mar 13, 2018 @ 08:04:39
Snow falling like fire and burning cold–I love it. Hope the flowers are OK. This is a crazy winter/spring!
Mar 13, 2018 @ 13:19:36
Down this way, it is actually pretty typical! Sometimes we have a warm early spring but mostly it is this snow one day, 65 degrees the next kind of affair. I’d prefer the early warm spring myself.
Mar 13, 2018 @ 10:42:33
Yes! The strong heart of the quince, he who comes first. Love this.
Mar 13, 2018 @ 13:18:04
Thank you. It is a venerable huge bush – from a cutting at my homeplace – brought over many generations ago. It has birthed hundreds of cuttings.
Mar 13, 2018 @ 11:12:50
….quince smolders like a slow fire… I like this. You made me think of snow-fire- burning (a great connection)
Mar 13, 2018 @ 13:16:58
🙂
Mar 13, 2018 @ 18:25:47
“burns slowly in the cold”
The flora teaching us much about too lofty expectations.
Mar 13, 2018 @ 21:31:05
Beautiful! I love the photo and the writing of the smoldering quince!
Mar 13, 2018 @ 22:43:37
snow falls like freezing fire — geeeez. this phrase is too beautiful! so as the entire poem and that photo!
Mar 14, 2018 @ 00:09:43
A perspective I needed after driving home in similar weather today. I especially love…
” Daffodils show like flames against the white.” I am always intrigued by winter’s insistence on interrupting spring.
Mar 15, 2018 @ 02:52:29
This one’s a beauty Toni.
Mar 15, 2018 @ 10:45:04
love the imagery in the words…it picked me up out of the winter doldrums…
Mar 15, 2018 @ 20:56:59
The image of a smoldering quince tells the whole story. Evocative write, Toni.