thankful for sheep
horses snug
in their woolen coats
Winter Coats
Woodland Cookies
sugar cookie leaves
a sweet feast
for forest creatures
Still Open
the current
evading
cold’s hold
December Oxbow
the first coat
of winter’s
white
Made New
new wonders
on old paths
the magic of snow
Fairies Ascension
tiny feet will climb
the fern leaf ladder
to their tree stump castle
The Merest Sliver
a wink
from the morning moon
before she disappears
The Snow Abstracted
an icing
of snowflakes
time suspended
Between Darknesses
light takes form
as a wave
of hope
A Purposeful Beauty
oh to age
as gracefully and generously
as the wildflower
Like Buttercups
yellow blossoms
adorning the path
blessing us with color
How The Spirit Leans
the young tree’s shadow
rests upon its near elder
receiving sacred reassurance
As A Cardinal Flashes
the woodlands call
to celebration
crimson berries cluster
Shared Knowledge
the stream and sky
converse about
the fluid endurance of existence
Choose
fear not
the near darkness
be warmed by the light
Woodland Rumpelstiltskin
the light
busy spinning
scrub brush into gold
Sheltered
no snow
beneath
the canopy
A Single Digit Of Warmth
the morning moon
in a tender sky
despite the bitter cold
Cascade
waterfall of time
this year’s leaves
descending mossy granite
Painter’s Light
often mistaken for ordinary
the masterpiece of
here and now
Seed Clouds
chugging by
like steam
from a train
A Cold Quiet Descends
the marsh
enveloped in
stillness and shadow
The Red Maple
late color
the last ruby smile
of autumn
In These Shorter Days
shadows dark as night
the brook thick with cold
winter taking hold
Stay Afloat
be light and able
true to self
in the ever changing current
May It Be Every Day
we journey
towards each other
open hearted
End Of The Rainbow
colors gathered
on the ripples
in the light
Remaining
the couple
sustaining each other
in bloom
Light And Water Falls
in the presence
of transience’s beauty
peace flows
Field Of Dreams
the many many seeds
now gone to bed
to dream and conjure up our spring