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Tag: ice

Posted on January 10, 2025January 8, 2025

Letting Go

the river knows
no need to cling
and offers welcome
to each new way of being

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Posted on December 31, 2024December 29, 2024

Morning Stars

night blessed the day
leaving stars
upon the window

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Posted on December 28, 2024December 18, 2024

Exhalation

the feathered breath
of winter
sighs upon the window

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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 March 26, 2024March 24, 2024

Shrub Chandelier

ice crystals
catching the light
casting it about

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Posted on March 21, 2024March 11, 2024

Lyrics

every leaf and twig
inscribed by light
writing the river bank’s ballad

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Posted on March 16, 2024March 7, 2024

Attendance

the one thing
always present
is impermanence

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Posted on March 15, 2024March 6, 2024

Seeking Touch

leaning out
the tree uproots
to reach across the river

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Posted on March 5, 2024February 26, 2024

Marvel

an icy lace
melting and magnifying
making a mosaic of Monday

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Posted on March 3, 2024February 26, 2024

After The Thaw

winter tried starting over
reglazing the pond with ice
and sprinkling grandma Moses flakes

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Posted on February 27, 2024February 18, 2024

Waking Dream

morning came
but my dreamscape
lingered on the window

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Posted on February 12, 2024February 6, 2024

Triptych Of Textures


distillations combine
winter’s tapestry
grown on stone

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Posted on January 26, 2024January 18, 2024

Finery

the window dressing
in a flourish
of feathers

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Posted on January 20, 2024January 18, 2024

In Outlines

tracing time
and its
continuous expansion

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Posted on January 14, 2024January 4, 2024

Winter Encaustic

fixed by cold
and held by ice
summer and autumn’s pigments

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Posted on December 31, 2023December 31, 2023

Change

many are the beginnings
and the sheddings 
that escort us into the new

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Posted on December 24, 2023December 13, 2023

The Waterfall In Winter

some of you
never make the full descent
balanced instead on a high wire of cold

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Posted on April 13, 2023April 11, 2023

Promise

on the broken branch
in the ice
verdant thriving

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Posted on April 11, 2023April 2, 2023

Costume Jewelry

ice makes diamonds
when snow becomes raindrops
the sparkle is of rhinestones

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Posted on April 7, 2023April 2, 2023

Obscured It Means More

like the remnants of a sweet dream
just out of reach with waking
glimpses of green

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Posted on March 26, 2023March 20, 2023

March The Month Of Everything

both snow and ice
with water running free
blue sky and clouds jostling

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Posted on March 25, 2023March 20, 2023

Seen And Seen Again

birch in the sun
are echoed as
icicles in shade

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Posted on March 14, 2023March 12, 2023

Sleepy House

eyelid of ice
the window
half closed

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Posted on March 9, 2023March 5, 2023

Spring Dream

new life
hatched and feathered
in sunshine and blue sky

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Posted on March 2, 2023February 28, 2023

Apparitions Of Spring

like garden ghosts
leaves appear
upon the icy window

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Posted on February 28, 2023February 28, 2023

Physics At The Brook’s Edge

if time itself could be seen
this is how it would appear
stopped and moving all at once

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Posted on February 11, 2023February 7, 2023

Solidarity

secrets shared
between
rocks and ice

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Posted on January 26, 2023January 17, 2023

Everlasting Ever Changing Unions

stone, water, branch
fallen and frozen, rushing and static
married this winter day

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Posted on January 19, 2023January 17, 2023

An Artist At Work

each underwater stroke
ripples the surface
new abstractions of reflections

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Posted on January 18, 2023January 9, 2023

This Tree

still waving goodbye
to the trains
that no longer cross the trestle

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