![A cup of tea on a desk beside a blank piece of paper ready for the quick poetry challenge!](https://i0.wp.com/tea.empresschic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Tea-Quick-Poetry-Challenge.jpg?resize=1024%2C626)
Your quick poetry challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write a poem in six lines or less. Share your creations in the comments!
Taking advantage of the free poetry classes offered by a local writing group, we were challenged to write a poem in six lines or less for the image below.
What would you write?
![A street corner in a blizzard, a woman and child (bundled up from head to toe) wait to cross at the light. A sign with lights that reads -39°C. Burrrr!](https://i0.wp.com/tea.empresschic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/39.jpg?resize=1024%2C684)
Amber’s Quick Poetry Challenge
In the dense rise of morning, I walk, weighted down with lists.
The desire to break the rules building up, drowning out the crunch of snow underfoot,
calming my frozen cheeks and forgetting the blazing -39 ahead.
Forgetting the ticking metre, forgetting the clumsiness of winter and crossing the street.
Click here to see Amber’s haikus from her piece last summer.
Need inspiration? Check out a few more short poems by women, 9 Female Poets That Inspired Us This Year.