What The Winter Brings...

I see the snow start to fall, and hear the black birds call. I shudder knowing what the winter brings, I sit in the yard starring at every sparkling flake that lands. One slowly drops into my hand, it doesn't melt because I'm cold as ice. I look at it's imprint and see the sign of death, the tears start over flowing as my memory starts to return. I see it like I'm still there in that moment looking down at her, a face frozen in time. The color blue, so very pale, colder then the snow touching my bare feet. It hurts to look at her, but I took a deep breath and I looked down, I shivered as the door blew open. I wondered off to the field, and that's where I found her lying, oh so very still. Frozen in that field of ice, she lay all crumpled up, the world was so cruel to her. Did she just lay down and die? I looked down to see her and found that she was me...so now I truly see just what the winter brings.

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Button wrote a review · Thu Sep 19, 2013 7:15 am

Comma splicessssss. I'm not usually one to comment on grammar all too often with reviews, but they were painful to get through in this piece. Fix 'em. Pretty please. (A comma splice is when you add two clauses together without the appropriate transitory words or punctuation)

Next, you can cut a lot of this. You're very wordy, and it's clunky. Look this over again, and try reading it aloud. Does it sound natural? Now repeat the story, but instead of reading it off, say it like you're talking to a friend and telling them this story. Try making it sound human.

Good luck,

Well, without the verse structure of the poem it's hard for me to point out much that way. So...technical pointers. "I shudder knowing what the winter brings, I sit in the yard starring at every sparkling flake that lands." That sentence is a comma splice; the comma should either be a semi-colon or a period. The same is true of the next two sentences as well. "colder then the snow", the "then" should be "than". " I wondered off to", the "wondered" should be "wandered". "she lay all crumpled up, the world was so cruel to her" is another comma splice; again, semi-colon or period to fix the issue.
Hope that helps!



When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.
— Dean Jackson