January Ozarks
Bitterly invigorating
Cold, wet snow blankets the ground
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Water rushing beneath a frozen creek
🧊
Rustling leaves swaying in the breeze
🍂
Evergreen trees scenting the forest air
🌲
Forest denizens foraging for their food
🦌
Snow birds chittering in their flight
🐦
Overcast, clouds covering the sun’s rays
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Tufts of sage grass standing tall
🌨️
Fresh snow lying pristine and white
☃️
Low and lazily rolling, the Foothills
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Wondrous, natural beauty, spectacular to see
👀
Seeming cruel, yet stimulating the senses
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Sharon this was beautiful. Well deserving of Top Story! We are forecasted to get a big snow storm Sunday, - It will test my resolve to see the beauty in the snow. We will see. Beautiful yes, I can it in my later years, but a foot of snow is another matter. Nicely Done my friend.
Mother Combs, your combination of text and icons adds a playful, yet thoughtful touch. It feels like you’re sharing a personal snapshot of a winter hike, and I can sense your awe and respect for the land.
Nature is beautifully cruel and healing at the same time. Such a beautiful poem MC. Cgrats,
A very well-deserved Top Story! Testament to just how much a skilled poet can convey to us in a minimum of words. This mountain landscape, forbidding yet awesome, came to life for me with a sort of Robert Service intensity, as he was another who didn't prettify snow and ice as so many Christmas cards do. Here, as in his 'Spell of the Yukon' for example, the wild outdoors is a battle to survive - animals must "forage for their food," and people may not even do so well. Nevertheless, although "seemingly cruel," it's a breathtakingly beautiful natural wonder too and you really put that across. The overall effect for me was something like the opening of a classic western, where we're shown the big country in all its majesty. We Brits like the idea of there being such spectacular places, as everything's so small here! By the way, my friend likes a band called the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, so I guess they come from around there!
Wooohooooo congratulations on your Leaderboard placement! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Nice!! Congratulations on your top story!!🎉🎉🎉
Congrats to you on your win! Love this piece!
Almost wants makes me want to move back to the prairies to experience winters again….not quite but close
Winter does have the tendency to look cruel, but so pleasant for our eyes. Like your poem!
Stunningly cold. Well deserved top story
Love that last line! Congrats on the top story!
Very lovely. I want to be there, not interfering with anybody's rhythm and just soak in. The AI art is so enchanting.
Back to say congratulations on your Top Story! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Congrats on Top Story!
Congratulations on your Top Story!!!
beautiful...congrats
Oh Sharon, this is stunning. Congrats on Top Story!
loved this!
Lovely words and it's like that here at the moment, love the image too
Loved this poem, Sharon! And impressed by the use of word "denizens."
Descriptive and beautiful.
Every line complimented the next. Beautiful work, Mother!
I really don't like winter, but your words made the cold weather seem so nice 😌
I loved that you brought all the senses to life in this. Wonderful wintry, sensory poem :)
Great, from start to finish 👏 💙🩵