Skiing

Weekly Challenges

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Skiing

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Do you go skiing? Snowboarding? Sledding? Write about how it feels to go hurtling down a snowy slope. How about the lift ride up? Or the feeling after a long day of skiing? If you haven't experienced this before, write about how you imagine it might feel. [Image by -CometDust- on YWP]

Submissions

  • Free

    A snowy slope

    Dark green trees

    Snow pelting my goggles 

    I’ve never seen anything so beautiful,

    Yet I’ve never been so afraid.

    I look at the steep slope before me

    Take in a big breath

  • There Wasn't One Moment

    It wasn't one moment

    That made me fall in love

    With snowboarding

    I didn't stand at the top of the mountain

    As the wind whipped my hair

    And decided I loved to snowboard

    It wasn't the moment when

  • Alive

    I don't know why

    but something in me loves

    to dance just out of death's reach

    to swerve between its fingers,

    there, but impossible to grasp

     

    letting an inch decide my next breath

    it makes me feel

  • Blue Sky Drowning

    There is // no tomorrow // blue sky drowning and leftover questions // through the snow, an end is distinguished // where so many divert their paths, paving into the ground // ice is all that’s left, this is how the cliff is found // if

  • Freedom

    SItting on a chair,

    Waiting patiently as I rise

    Into the heavens we go

    Then comes the end of the rope,

    And down the slope we go.