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Tag: winter

Posted on February 25, 2025February 15, 2025

Sunset Blaze

we warm ourselves
on the coldest days
with the sunset’s blaze

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Posted on February 24, 2025February 15, 2025

Side By Side

a gathering
of out buildings
constitutes winter community

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Posted on February 22, 2025February 15, 2025

Protection And Care

the fence line wanders
towards the road
then cutting right
to safeguard the herd

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Posted on February 20, 2025February 15, 2025

Cotton Snow

the landscape
softly swaddled
in a purity of comfort

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Posted on February 19, 2025February 15, 2025

Asleep Like Bears

three canoes
in hibernation
dreaming of gleeful paddles

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Posted on February 18, 2025February 15, 2025

Portrait Of A Tree In Winter

a dark stark elegance
cloaks leafless branches
and incubates the unseen green

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Posted on February 17, 2025February 15, 2025

At The Pond

still waters
slow wandering clouds
I pause to let the peace seep into me

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Posted on February 12, 2025February 6, 2025

Primary Network

the landscape
an elaborate system
sharing data and social connections

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Posted on February 11, 2025February 6, 2025

Parable Of The Winter Woods

some leaves remain
amidst the snow
how hard it is
the letting go

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Posted on February 10, 2025February 6, 2025

With Less, More

white and grays and blues
the ground and branch and sky
expressing winter’s intricate simplicities

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Posted on February 9, 2025February 3, 2025

To Be Held

embraced
without distortion
protected and cherished

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Posted on February 5, 2025January 27, 2025

Morning Greeting

each day
the first friends I see
four fields across the way

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Posted on February 2, 2025January 27, 2025

February Dandelions

perennial hope
winter wished
for yellow blooms

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Posted on February 1, 2025January 27, 2025

Nature Writer

the dog tromps and romps
her tracks leave
a story of joy

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Posted on January 31, 2025January 27, 2025

Time Abstracted

within in the flow
it wrinkles and bunches
but always eventually
untangles itself

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Posted on January 29, 2025January 20, 2025

Ice Birds

perched upon
the window screen
then rising into flight

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Posted on January 27, 2025January 20, 2025

A Bit Of January Thaw

the field snow thins
river ice recedes
warmer air
passing through trees

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Posted on January 25, 2025January 20, 2025

Ascending

snowflakes climb the trees
each limb a rung
on the ladder back to heaven

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Posted on January 23, 2025January 20, 2025

Transformation

wearing a coat of white fur
the crabapple now
a Zao snow monster

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Posted on January 22, 2025January 20, 2025

Sunset In New Snow

the world
freshly brightened
with a lacquer of cold

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Posted on January 21, 2025January 15, 2025

Secrets

a morse code of snow
dots and dashes
flying past the pine

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Posted on January 18, 2025January 11, 2025

Water Open And Closed

the river keeps
one eye open
watching trees

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Posted on January 16, 2025January 11, 2025

The River Curves

motionless
the river wanders
the future and the past

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Posted on January 11, 2025January 8, 2025

Winter’s Butterflies

winged maple seeds
perched on the branch
fluttering in the wind

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Posted on January 9, 2025January 1, 2025

Smiled Upon

winter holds tight to the shadows
but OH the sun, the sun
the saving sun

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Posted on January 5, 2025January 1, 2025

Blue Sunset

dark clouds
blue with water
preparing to erase the snow

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Posted on January 3, 2025January 1, 2025

Alone Together

room for thoughts
to wander
between them

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Posted on January 2, 2025January 1, 2025

Beneath The Watch Of Elders

young pine
in the January snow
so many more years to grow

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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 30, 2024December 23, 2024

Shaken

trees appear tiny
the world a snow globe shaken
then set gently down

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