Winter Snow

Snow

Iridescent

Soft as marshmallows

Cold but alive

Falls around me

Blanketing the ground

With her alabaster jewels

The world is hushed

Silent

Time Stops

Autumn Fire Wine Glasses

Hand Painted Wine Glasses

by Mystic Meadows

Mystic Meadows
Hand Painted Wine Glass
Autumn Fire

2019 UPDATE: I no longer paint wine glasses, but I am still very proud of the work I have done in the past.

Mystic Meadows
Winter Wonderland
Hand Painted Wine Glass

Falling Into Winter; NaPoWriMo Day Three

FALLING INTO WINTER
Color
The leaves change
Die
And fall
Winter comes
Cold air whips
At the windowpanes
Hooving through the cracks
Sweaters boots
Gloves scarves and hats
Steaming mugs of coffee or chocolate
Sipped around a roaring fire
Wood chips everywhere
Scattered across the floor
Kitties doze lazily near the hearth
Safe and warm and loved
Snow
White and sparkly
Soft as cotton
Cold like ice cream
It falls all around me
Blanketing the earth
With a quilt of white beauty
Everything is silent
Hushed

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ODE TO WINE, NaPoWriMo, Day One

ODE TO WINE
by Tammy Petry

I sit
exhausted
propped on pillows
sipping red wine
from a large blue glass
by the bare bulb of my lamp

The air around me is cold
but I edge deeper
into the layers
of quilts and blankets
that remind me of times
and of loved ones passed

My feet are warmed
by the large orange tabby
who never leaves my side

As I savor
the crisp tangy wine
I wait
for that magical moment
when my skin
flashes hot
and I can feel my pulse
throbbing in my fingertips

(thump thump thump)

I am pleasantly warmed
from head to toe
and everywhere in between
and am finally able
to close
my
eyes
and release
the thoughts and worries of the day

I allow sleep
to gently come over me

Just as The Morrigan
takes the newly departed from the battlefield
so I succumb to Dionysis' embrace
and allow myself to be carried off
like a child
like warrior
into my sleep.