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Tag: winter

Posted on February 5, 2023January 31, 2023

Woodland Expression

shadows and the softness
given by distance
deliver an abstracted woods

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Posted on February 3, 2023January 31, 2023

Through The Window

the view
enhances my outlook
on all the comforts of inside

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Posted on February 2, 2023January 31, 2023

Moss And Snow

seeming strange bedfellows
yet nestled sweetly together
companions during winter’s long sleep

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Posted on February 1, 2023January 27, 2023

The Sky Sighs Snow

quiet
falls down and piles up
manifesting the white depth of solitude

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Posted on January 31, 2023January 27, 2023

Just Two

all that is needed
that other one
to inhabit the world with

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Posted on January 30, 2023January 27, 2023

Resounding

when the tall tall pine
holds onto snow
I see the echo of every Christmas

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Posted on January 29, 2023January 25, 2023

Far Away And High

insistently
you knock
drawing my eye

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Posted on January 28, 2023January 25, 2023

Flow

I long
to take life’s curves
as gracefully as the winter brook

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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 22, 2023January 17, 2023

Run Off

snow melt heads
back to to the aquifer
water always finds its way

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Posted on January 20, 2023January 17, 2023

Vacillating Temperatures

winter wavers warm and cold
mimicking the wobble
of the old garden fence

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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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Posted on January 16, 2023January 9, 2023

The Road Home

etched in memory
our tracks in the snow
the hug of each curve

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Posted on January 11, 2023January 9, 2023

Finding Flowers

dried by time
soaked by winter
and still blooming

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Posted on January 10, 2023January 9, 2023

Secrets Of The Feathered Fellowship

on gray days
being in community
creates its own kind of sunlight

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Posted on January 9, 2023January 2, 2023

At The Boundary We Will Know We Have Met

even in the solitary woods
someone cared
to make good neighbors

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Posted on January 8, 2023January 2, 2023

A Tenacity Of Delicacy

thrown to the ground
by a punishing wind
intricacies undaunted

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Posted on January 7, 2023January 2, 2023

Mop Of Cold

bent to the river by cold
held to new work by ice
servitude of sweeping

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Posted on January 3, 2023January 2, 2023

The Season’s Fashion

the myriad ways
winter wears white
in snow and ice, birch and cloud

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Posted on January 1, 2023December 29, 2022

Winter’s Wandering Path

a smidge of snow
the glittering cold
many storms still to go

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Posted on December 31, 2022December 29, 2022

Still Green

even in winter
the grass finds
her days in the sun

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Posted on December 30, 2022December 27, 2022

Like A Sunset

although dormant
still sending colors
up to the sky

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Posted on December 27, 2022December 23, 2022

Companions

we are
more alike
than not

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Posted on December 26, 2022December 23, 2022

Narnia

morning opened
to the enchanted world
where Aslan might call upon us

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Posted on December 25, 2022December 23, 2022

Accumulation Of Stillness

silent now
like a walk
in the clouds

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Posted on December 24, 2022December 21, 2022

Ferocious Beauty

the birch
bows down
to winter

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Posted on December 23, 2022December 21, 2022

The Particular Disposition Of Winter

a storm assembles
in the woods
the weight and shape of cold

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Posted on December 22, 2022December 20, 2022

How It Comes

barely noticeable at first
the white outline gathering
on every branch and blade

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Posted on December 19, 2022December 15, 2022

Reaching For Each Other

stepping stones
growing into the whole
of a frozen crossing

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Posted on December 3, 2022November 28, 2022

Early Winter Abstraction

morning’s bright sun
has turned the roof ice to lace
the still colorful world peeks through

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