Friday Fictioneers – Rochelle Wisoff-Fields posts a pic to write a 100 word story about.
This week it’s:
Copyright – Rochelle Wisoff-Fields
Stained Glass Winter
Through these crystalled clouds,
There, on the other side,
Fuzzy figures seem to glide.
Skaters on a frozen lake,
Gloved hands braced behind their backs,
Arched and graceful silhouettes.
The pane abstracts the world,
As I scratch against the glass.
Cold crystals collect under my fingernails.
I rub my sweater sleeves back and forth across the pane.
The bumps on the glass feel funny on my arms.
I blow my breath,
An extended ha-a-a-ha,
And there, there, now I can see,
A tiny framed glimpse of a
Wee and winsome wintry scene.
Like grandpa’s snow globe
Shaken up, snow flakes swirling,
My world’s become
A pearl white paradise.
And I want to bundle up, go dashing
Out there to that frozen lake,
And swiftly skate alongside all the others.
But I wait,
Delighted, here inside,
This swirling shaken globe,
Restrained for the moment,
By an icy stained glass window pane.
Randy Mazie
The Writer's Village 
Lovely.
thank you.
That was magical, Randy.
Mine is here today http://anneorchardwriter.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/friday-fictioneers-clearing/
Thanks for your own tragic magic in your story.
I really liked it – sad and stirring.
tea and talcum – biscuit and books
a snapshot of love
Dear Randy,
Skillfully rendered. Is it a dream within a dream? Hard to tell because it works either way. I love what you’ve done here.
Aloha,
Doug
a dream within a dream.
a snow globe within a snow globe.
I could see this person breathing on the window to clear a spot. Lovely, Randy.
thanks, Rochelle.
We all try to clear a spot, rubbing elbows, and breathing hard.
Randy
Randy, this is beautiful. I could see it (and have done it.). I love the “wee and winsome wintry scene.”
thanks.
I wondered wif I went woverboard on the w’s
like a silly wabbit
but then I liked the phrasing, so I kept it.
😉 Randy
I liked this; just as I like being inside looking out at winter scenes such as you conveyed here.
Mmm. Sitting inside beside a cold, maybe drafty, window looking out is dreamy.
Hi Randy,
A beautiful evocation of winter’s majesty. Ron
Thank you Ron.
Lovely, and I long for skating on the lake. We can do that here most every winter.
lucky you
Reminds me of when I was a kid and couldn’t go out to play in the snow (the one time we got it down in S. Louisiana) because I was in bed with bronchitis or pneumonia or something. Loved the imagery you used 🙂
Thanks. Always pleased when someone writes about a memory that pops up – though sorry to hear you were stuck inside.
My kids grew up here in south Florida – so on several winter vacations we’d drive up north in what we called our “In Search of Snow” adventures.
Marvelous! I like the snow globe image and wanting to bundle up inside. That’s what I want to do when I see this window.
Me, too!
Randy