Hello you magical, critiquey people! Now, I'm doing something different this Christmas, that being sticking a poem I wrote on the front of homemade Christmas cards. I'm slightly worried that people will think it's pretentious or whatever, and I make no claims to like any poetry I write, but when I started with this, my brain said it should be a poem. The first verse started out entirely as a line of prose, but it nagged and kicked me until I teased it into a poem. So what I'm saying, I guess, is this: is this good enough for my entire flat of 23 people to see, as well as my rather huge family? Or should I dispose of it, only to show it to my creative writing class?

S'called:

Winter's Footsteps.

Snow falls,
like so many autumn
leaves,
blanketing the ground
with perfect pale.

All sound
dimmed and soft,
save the crunch of
Winter,
her footsteps a clear trail
in pristine snow.