Today we stayed home from church, and let the snow fall where it may!  As the snowflakes fall - some big, some small - some quickly, some floating, others bouncing ... they are pristine in their beauty!  There is serenity in satisfaction.

My new friend Val is a very creative lady and writes lots of poetry. She has encouraged me to write more, and so I thought I would try something new from this page of poetry types.   Since I had already posted an acrostic, and then a blank verse, I decided to continue down the  first column of types of poems.

Today's poem that I wrote is an echo verse poem.  Here is the definition taken from that page:  "An Echo Verse is when the last word or syllable in a line is repeated or echoed underneath to form a rhyming line, normally ending as the last line being the title to the poem."

Quietness can be peaceable.

Echo: Able.

It can bring pleasure,

Echo: Sure!

Or hide thoughts painful.

Echo: Full.

Or awkwardness induce.

Echo: Deuce!

Or pregnant with creative thought,

Echo: Ought,

There is action resulting.

Echo: TING!

Then back to repose.

Echo: Pose.

 Poem Copyright © 2014 Carolyn Justice

Every night in recent years, my husband and I  have had a tradition of  a snack time together ... usually while watching a T.V. show together in the living room.   Sometimes fruit, a baked item,  an ice cream treat, a fruit smoothie,  popcorn, etc. was the choice.  Probably ice cream or a fruit smoothie  became the most common snack.  Then when Mom came to live with us this past September,  it pretty much           became "Carolyn's Ice Cream Shoppe!"  Below are some of the various ways that ice cream has been served in the past week.

My daughter-in-law posted these (& others) pictures of our son and their daughter Tristen, dressed up for an 80's-themed Daddy-Daughter-Dance which is an annual occurrence at her school This is her fourth, but only her second with her Daddy.  Our son Shaun missed the first two due to being deployed in Kuwait and Afghanistan, so Tristen's BFF's dad took both of them to the dance. That was such a special ministry that he provided to the family! However, Tristen (& her Dad) are delighted and overjoyed to be able to go to the school dances together now!

Hope everyone is doing well!  I end with this little note of encouragement that goes along with my blogs theme for the day.