lovely work, hope your weather IS nothing like the 9 - 10 feet of snow i'm hearing about on weather channel.

Fascinating. Vivid imagery. A wonderful picture of nature. Very seductive this is. Exquisite!

I like the esoteric quality and the stream of consciousness in this piece. Well done!
~Butch

enjoyed the font on this one

this is deep as well as beautiful.

Judy Meeker

Are their six sides invisible too?

Ron

I like it, very cryptic and elusive.

Stan

Intriguing write, Jude. Engaging that which lurks in the shadows can be a perilous exercise... Always a pleasure to track your footprints in the snow!
Peace,
Carolyn

Within the mass of swirling snowflakes, there is a duallism, it seems to me, of who's doing the hiding and who's doing the seeking. Whatever... far from this feeling like "the big freeze" it rather suggests to me the tender warmth of a welcome spring breeze, with the playful footprints and "gusting", and the caressing hair-touches. I feel that this has more to do with the respect of space that should be found within the intimacy of close relationships, but, notwithstanding the need for "tiptoes" at times, there is the commitment and determination of the long-distance skier (skyer!) to be "in it" for the long haul... notwithstanding the fact that there might yet be questions left unanswered. And this is a case in point where a change of typeface and layout works to maximum effect. Love the "soft-shoe shuffle" feel to that. Feeling the way ahead gingerly... Very concrete picture of the uncertainty of dealing with someone who is close, and who yet seems dug in to some sort of snowhole on a rock face to shelter from the icy blast.

Love the soft whimsical nature of "Invisible Snowflakes" and the way the lines drift from start to conclusion like powdery flakes of thought and snow.

Aberjhani

You have this mystery about your poetry. I find hidden passages to set me on the same journey and the boost I get from your quill incites my passions to get along about my way. I'm not sure I adsorb what others do. UIonly know that the focus in my dream is always the same. I might even meet you there one day.

Susan

As always, your words create vivad imagery! Beautiful work!

Ah, having read this one, I'm glad that I live in TX
I do miss the snow, Great visuals and imagery in this
Thick snowfall!! I wished I could have seen!!
Love And Peace To You Always your Friend..Morning Star

Quite a visual poem despite the thick snowfall. Victor

Masterfully done Jude!!

Love Tinka

As hauntingly lovely as Maxfield Parrish's "Daybreak" painting!
That is one of my favorites of his, and this poem is one of my
favorites of yours...

Excellent character sketches. It is hard to explain the feeling this give me as I read it.....feeling it as I blew across the street like the wind whispering in the character's ear, unheard but there :-)

One of the most beautiful unique poems I've ever read! Every word evokes a picture, and each scene is more exquisite than the last.You outdid yourself Jude! Kudo's!


Love,

Eileen

This poem grows on me. "Designer" snowflakes are grown in the lab year-round, in sunny Southern California. It's part of an ongoing research into the physics of crystal growth and pattern formation. where one can view three generations of laboratory-grown snowflakes.
INVISIBLE SNOWFLAKES is a designer poem and I wonder if you, RJ are from a third generation of poets. You've skied this one into our hearts and open personalities...with tight bindings, it is that you have encased visible literary genius top competition. Meet you upright at the mogul dear poet...

Sage

Robert,

Invisible? I think not: they are falling into my heart, these beautiful words. One of your best, thank you!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

This is enlightening to read as my first today...it has imagery, flow, magnificent reader conclusions and each line long to read the other...lovely!

This is one of the finest poems I've read this year.
Very 'visible' to this reader.
DWB

light, powdery, dreamy touch to this one. "I sense you're about / attemting to gust my powdery whites" makes the whole poem for me, and it's perfectly placed. Dawn

Oh,to walk in the snow i would truly love,this writes imagery had me there.Awesome write,
Michael

this is absolutely dreamy!! I want to lie down, close my eyes and listen to it being read...

SWeetttttt

wow! "cloaked personalitites" and "within the night" give us something to chew on. much luck with this one, night poet.

Robert,

Each snowflake is unique but as a whole you can never tell them apart.

Your poetry is as pastels on canvas, Robert. Always full of lovely imagery and meaning and one of your best gifts is allowing your readers to 'see' your words. Very well done and a pleasure.
Love,
CJ

Loved your imagery here, Robert.

Jude you captured the magic of a walk in the night as the beauty of mother nature paints your backdrop. Well done my friend.

Fee

One has to continue their journey lest they lose what they have.

Wonderful imagery Jude...
" I slide across the street

Like a long distance skier

On a vision of invisible snowflakes"

It describes of an existential struggle in a very dreamy way...

D

These are excellent lines, Jude:

"It’s better to leave
Cloaked personalities
To shadows lurking inside a dream"

Yep, if someone is not willing to honestly interact with us, it is best to leave our thoughts of them tucked within our subconscious and deal with them only in our dreams. Life is too short to have to be second guessing someone's motivations, especially if we were ever considering allowing them into our heart and/or our soul.
Take care,
Sherry

"Attempting to gust my powdery whites"
This line is Excellent!
great work