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Tag: black and white

Posted on August 21, 2025August 15, 2025

It Wasn’t Grey

amidst
the black and white
the green of things

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Posted on December 20, 2024December 18, 2024

The Durability Of Change

the habit of the river
to turn again and again
from stillness to movement

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Posted on January 30, 2024January 21, 2024

The Beholder

petals long gone
I still see
you blooming

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Posted on February 11, 2023February 7, 2023

Solidarity

secrets shared
between
rocks and ice

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Posted on May 31, 2022May 28, 2022

All The Pieces Of The World

gathered
on to
granite

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Posted on July 31, 2020July 26, 2020

The Petunia Looking Back

deep inside
a piercing
green eye

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Posted on March 3, 2020February 29, 2020

Midnight Snack


dawn light reveals
the wandering path
of a nocturnal browse

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Posted on January 6, 2020January 5, 2020

Cay


an island
on thin ice
asylum for sunshine

 

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Posted on July 2, 2019June 25, 2019

Perfection Realized


to see her
cup the sunlight
in her perfect petals

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Posted on April 19, 2019April 17, 2019

Still Held


we wait
for winter
to release her grasp

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Posted on February 7, 2019February 4, 2019

Apparition


wandering
between the trees
the ghost of light

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Posted on January 14, 2019January 13, 2019

Darkness Softened


the black and white
of night snow
in moonlight

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Posted on January 12, 2019January 11, 2019

Tail Feathers


peacock’s
plumage blooms
fans on the window

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Posted on November 2, 2018October 29, 2018

Wings


the hope
of flight
not without effort

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Posted on April 26, 2018April 24, 2018

Reminiscences


hollow in the old tree
holding memories
of yesterdays

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Posted on January 18, 2018January 17, 2018

The Privileged


we watch
winter’s demanding dramatics
from inside our warm havens

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Posted on December 22, 2017December 20, 2017

Trimming


the eaves
wear a tatting of ice
fastened by a shuttle of cold

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Posted on December 18, 2017December 16, 2017

Rising


the landscape yawns
winter’s breath
rises from the mountains

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Posted on December 15, 2017December 13, 2017

Countenance


joy’s gesture
expressive limbs
welcoming winter

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Posted on December 12, 2017December 11, 2017

Unseen Seen


it was revealed
the intricate web
connecting everything

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Posted on December 11, 2017December 9, 2017

Creation


amidst snow
and fading light
the river abstracted

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Posted on December 9, 2017December 5, 2017

Holding Up The Sky


snow sky
held high by
December morning’s tree

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Posted on December 1, 2017November 27, 2017

Becoming One Another


the icing pond
receiving rain
so many ways to be

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Posted on March 3, 2017March 2, 2017

Held

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beneath the bark
one birch’s dark night
held sacred by the grove

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Posted on February 24, 2017February 20, 2017

Iceland

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February grew
trees of ice
a forest of cold

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Posted on January 16, 2017January 13, 2017

Austerity

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sharp edged
cold etches
light into dark

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Posted on January 3, 2017January 2, 2017

Iddy-umpty

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morse code of winter
dots and dash of ice
arctic opus written in cold

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Posted on December 21, 2016December 18, 2016

To Thine Own Self

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each inclined
toward truth in self
such freedoms in the field

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Posted on December 14, 2016December 12, 2016

Constellation

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starry night
upon the ground
astronomy on earth

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Posted on November 22, 2016November 21, 2016

Tentative

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first snow
a little shy
to be dropping by

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