For those of you who missed it, we held a winter-inspired haiku contest over on the Hazel & Wren Facebook page on Friday. It yielded all number of fantastically frosty phrases, including my new-favorite line: “Thighs like Barbie’s pink Corvette” (Elizabeth Sowden), and perspectives ranging from the season’s perils (by Kyle Hebert):

Black ice beneath wheels
Inertia’s spell is broken
Spinning to freedom.

to its cozier benefits (by Margret Aldrich):

When winter arrives
Get the goose-down comforter
And meet me upstairs.

Let’s continue the theme this week, shall we? Write your own piece (haiku or not) inspired by the winter months. Here are three winter scenes to get you in the mood, although I would recommend checking out the rest of Friday’s haikus for maximum inspiration.

Andrew Wyeth, Winter, 1946, 1946. Tempera on board. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.

Aleksandr Deyneka, Skates, 1927. Gouache on canvas. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Living movie still made by If We Don’t, Remember Me. Scene from Fargo. Dir. Joel and Ethan Coen. Universal Pictures, 1996.