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
