K's Korner: First Snow

Krushangi Maisuria is the Editor of HamletHub TeenTimes and a regular contributor to Fairfield HamletHub. In this post, she was inspired to write about the first snow of the season...

“First Snow”

I love the first snow and, as a child, I would wait in eager anticipation every December, eyes glued to the weather report on TV, wondering when I would see fuzzy snowflakes adorning the weatherman’s map. Since the recent snowfall only lasted for a few minutes, to mimic that in a sense, I challenged myself to see if I could create a poem in less than two minutes. This is the result —a poem about snow-- written in less than two minutes.

There

really is nothing

quite like the peace of the

first snow. Wide-eyed children rapt

by the soft pearls glistening on the sidewalks.

A twinkle of excitement, anticipation even, in the eyes of a little girl

circling the pond-turned-ice-rink. Hands covered with red mittens,

she deftly transforms a fistful of snow into a

snowball. The air is electric with happiness

for the holidays. No, there is

nothing quite like the

first snow.