WRITING OBSTACLE

Write a short story or poem about a couple’s anniversary that uses weather as a motif.

Motifs can affect a reader’s view of characters and story greatly. You could use adjectives typically used for weather to create the characters, or metaphors of weather to describe relationships and scenarios.

Fallen Stars

Remember when I wore your sweatshirt

How I loved you so much that my heart hurt

When we watched the sun dip over the horizon

And everything smelled like cinnamon spice then

When I found your hands wrapped around mine

Like someone so desperately had committed a crime

But you and I, we had an alibi

Sealed tight not to repeat

It was our little secret

that was meant to keep

But the snowflakes fell

And everyone everywhere knew of our tell

We hadn’t hidden ourselves so well

With the sun at our backs

The rays dispersed through the cracks

What was once a life that was meant to be ours

Now submerged into the water like fallen stars

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