Childhood Winter Memories - Sam Lu

As winter came and snowflakes, soft as down
So gently graced our mitts, we laughed in joy.
We ran through powder blankets in our boots,
And left those boot prints back there in those woods.

At home so warm, through frosted windowpanes,
I watched the cloudy sky turn white to night,
And all the while the snow in silence fell,
It snowed and snowed our boot prints all away.

The morning came and with it snowball games.
Though cold outside we felt so nice and warm,
All wrapped up in our parents love and care.
Who knew this scene would melt away like snow?


This is a blank verse I wrote, about the first memories of the Vancouver snow during my childhood. It is written in iambic pentameter. It fits with my theme because it is set in the winter. In this poem, I compared the moments of these memories to the fleeting Vancouver snow, and to the boot prints left overnight in the snow, which disappears so quickly. The snow also represents childhood innocence, which melts away so quickly in these modern times. There is some internal rhyme like "cloudy sky turn white to night," and "The morning came and with it snowball games.".