Shades of Green [Haiku]

sunlit garden
to distant mountains —
every shade of green.

Winter River [Haiku]

between snowy banks,
a silvery river
slips through cold mountains.

Hermit Time [Haiku]

cave hermit
can’t see farmers in fields, just
brown to green to tan.

Candles [Free Verse]

Ancient cathedral: 
pews & altar
long gone.
Cold air creeps
through cracks
to flicker candles,
Candles lit for
those long dead —
though long remembered —
on a cold, winter day.

Palace Pavilion [Haiku]

late afternoon sun
penetrates the pavilion —-
causing napper’s turn.

Cheeto Skies [Senryū]

a shade of orange
that doesn’t exist in nature…
yet - there it is!

Lake Ice [Lyric Poem]

Sun-sparkles on the lake’s far end
look icy cool beneath blue skies,
but Winter shivers, I suspend,
because late Spring is telling lies.

Garden Lanterns [Haiku]

legs in leaf litter,
garden lanterns catch light
that pierces bare woods.

Winter Woods [Haiku]

bare branches,
in the Winter forest,
look frost-covered.