Variations on a Challenge (100 Word Challenge for Grown Ups)

The challenge:

“Now for this week, I’m pinching (with permission!) an idea from my dear friend Jenny Matlock.  You may not be old enough to know this rhyme:

Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot…

Now it has a rhythm to it – yes? Your challenge this week is to write something with the same rhythm using only 21 words that include ‘ …in winter we shiver…‘ Easy!”

Once I started the challenge, I couldn’t stop, so here are three variations:

Version I: Seasonal Silliness

Whatever the weather in winter we shiver
Whenever the wind does blow
‘Tis the season, surpassing reason
Making men from snow.

Photo by Steve Kramer

Version II: Celebrating the Season

In winter we shiver, limbs all a-quiver
Whenever winds do blow
Still many a reason, a smiling season;
Stupendous sparkly snow.

Version III: Season of Doom

Come hither children, in winter we shiver
as death creeps ever in.
Play, play, forever; undefeatable never
for seasons always win.

Be sure to read all the other entries.

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