[stylist] Writing prompt (brown winter).

[Lynda Lambert]

Shawn, I loved your poem!
Winter is my favorite season, and the short 2 years when I lived in 
California was as you described here - a brown landscape with cooler 
weather but winter never really comes (as I know it to be, with snow and 
crystal landscape.)  November comes, it is true - and then November 
continues until summer comes again.  Here on the east coast November is just 
the beginning of our winter and it is full of the promise of what is coming 
after November has left us.

Life without winter, for me, was not a life I wanted to live.  I longed for 
the harshness and extreme beauty of an east coast winter.

I like the way you moved from the song lyrics into your reverie here.
Lynda





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "vejas" <brlsurfer at gmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Writing prompt (brown winter).


> Shawn,
> I liked your poem about missing the snow.
> I recognized the song, it was "California Dream-in" by the Mamas and the 
> Papas.
> For these whose favorite season is winter, November must be a depressing 
> time.
> Vejas
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jacobson, Shawn D" <Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov
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> Date sent: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:55:06 -0500
> Subject: [stylist] Writing prompt (brown winter).
>
> OK.  I'll try it.  I think you should be able to guess the song that the 
> first line comes from.
>
> All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray
> but I see no snowy white.
> This cold ground chills but does not warm
> with snow's Christmas invoking sight.
> This snowless winter I wish would be gone.
> It seems November caries on and on.
> Does winter want to claim the land or not?
> These snowy days of yore I've almost forgot.
> This dithering weather leaves me with a frown.
> Be snowy or be gone oh' winter brown.
>
> Shawn Jacobson
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