My Sugar Plum Memory...

My first contribution to the creative website twoscoopz.com in the focus 52 category...prompt for this week: Sweet...as in sweet memory...

by klr

Glowing memories

in flickering candle light

Grandpa nudges me

Christmas bells resonate,

birds announce the hour,

tricycle under the tree

Morning chore at hand 

as we step outside,

lacy white flakes kiss my face

The screen door squeaks to a close;

his wool wisky white beard

tickle my round red cheek

Sugarplums keep guard,

Silvery reminders of

long nights, years ago, 

the winters he carried me

to the old gray barn

through moon shadowed snow too deep

Time to milk the cow

A lantern lights the distance

from the front stoop to the barn

Mittened hands hold tight

around grandfather's shoulder

I wonder if he 

somehow watches o'er me

He had a nickname

for me that I loved so much:

"..hello, Sugarplum.." 

From that walk in the snow until

just before he passed,

he always called me his "Sugarplum"

focus 52