2017 Inklings Book Contest finalist: Inés García
Today we are featuring Inklings Book Contest 2017 finalist, Inés García! Inés finished 7th grade this past school year. The poem she submitted is called “The Winter Woods” We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did!
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The Winter Woods
by Inés García
Mother Nature slips under her white blanket, biting and cold.
And falls asleep…
The hares, the weasels slip out of their dirty, dank frocks and don their seamless white dresses, freshly laundered
The fox, she throws off her old summer clothing and buttons up her icy gown, elegant and blinding
They slip off into the freshly painted woods, pale shadows dancing on a pale floor
Time slows to a gentle stop and hops off his horse to take a nap
The rivers, they stop too, and crawl under transparent blankets
Peering out from blue, icy windows
Sound itself disappears in these woods
Leaving no trace at all
She lets the trees do all the talking
They whisper among themselves, their branches adorned with thousands of frozen pearls
-Beautifully quiet
White falls from the passive sky
It lands, gracefully on a deer’s nose
Its sisters fly off elsewhere
Birds of ice
Amid these colorless woods,
Hidden beneath a bush’s watchful eye
Lies Winter’s rubies
They glisten, they glimmer
Blood on paper
Dressed in Fire,
These holly berries rest
