On Winter Solstice, I challenged my social media friends to contribute winter words to a collaborative poem. (A collaborative poem is simply a poem with many authors.) Well – wow! I wound up with 161 donated words! I decided rather than to put them all into a single poem, to break them up into several poems. I enjoyed clustering the words into patterns, and finding images to match. Here are some of our best:

Words donated by Mary Couch, Chuck Kellum, Paula Guernsey, Deb Ritter Carrell, Nancy Simmonds, and David Allen.

Words donated by Chuck Kellum, Lorraine Rosio, David Allen, George Wylie, Tim Philippart, Gracie Estok, and Liladiller