The Poetry Stash: 10February2025

To an Icicle by Blanche Taylor Dickinson

Today’s poem, “To an Icicle” by Blanche Taylor Dickinson is in the public domain

To an Icicle by Blanche Taylor Dickinson

Chilled into a serenity
As rigid as your pose
You linger trustingly,
But a gutter waits for you.
Your elegance does not secure
You favors with the sun.
He is not one to pity fragileness.
He thinks all cheeks should burn
And feel how tears can run.

Prompts:

1.	Begin with “Rigid as…”
2.	Begin with “a gutter waits…”
3.	Draft an apostrophe. To read more about apostrophe, click here.
4.	Draft a poem that includes personification. To read more about personification, click here.

5. Photo by Markus Spiske via pexels.com. Use the image as a writing prompt.

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