Winter persists
trying spring’s patience.
April Ice
A storm slides in
and glazes spring
freezing her in motion.
In The Distance
On the far side of the horizon
summer makes her plans for us.
Dearest Pine
offers color all through winter
and presents a profusion of green vitality
in these last heartless days before the blooming of spring.
Songstress
Make your home near mine
and sing your song of joy
at each day’s new breaking.
Spiral Path
Wander outward
ever outward
toward the mysteries beyond.
Sleepy Head
Tousled haired
the field wakes
from winter’s sleep.
Delicate
Branches blush as buds begin to swell.
Subtly color creeps into the landscape.
Sweet Magnolia
The bright blue sky bites with cold.
Buds hunker down waiting for a warmer sun
to shed their fuzzy jackets and unfurl petaled perfection.
Surely
Morning makes its way through bare branches.
Every ray of sun brings us closer to the greening of spring.
Vacancy
A nest awaits
the feathered promise
of new beginnings.
Warrior
The green swords of spring unfurl
winning their duel with winter.
Return
The landscape shifts from white to green.
Ice is no match for the determination of spring.
Estre
They rise
bringing
hope and renewal.
Beneath
A thin blanket of snow covers the pond
concealing the secret lives of fish.
Between
Between the seasons
a quiet pause
as the earth sighs.
Yearning
A weed’s bloom from last fall
feeds my hunger for flowers.
Hanging Around
Winter loiters
in the month of March.
Galapagos Garden
Lichen archipelago
on an ocean of granite.
Melt
As the earth softens
spring finds hospitality
in the primordial offering of mud.
The Island of Vermont
Landlocked and wooden
this moai
is a tree deity.
Certainty
Wearing a shroud of winter
the rock sculpture endures
certain of Spring’s dominion.
Lace Making
Casting a pattern like lace
shadows of leaves
embellish the snow.
Stained Glass
How glorious the view
from the cathedral that is nature.
Flurry
In my spring dreams
it snows flowers.
Obscured
Below a fresh layer of cold
colors stir and plot
their renaissance.
Surfacing
From the cold, dark earth
emerges the noble daffodil
shouldering its way to the sun.
Mock Blossom
Raindrops bejewel branches
heralding spring’s spectacle.
A Rose Is A Rose
Tree bark grows
a lichen rose.
Send Off
Day departs
painting the sky
riotous colors.