first snowy morn. the only signs of life: plodding footprints.
Waking to Snow [Haiku]
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Depreciation [Tanka]
in the morning, a fresh blanket of snow makes the world look new. by day's end, it's well-trodden: a car driven off the lot.
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Frozen Silence [Free Verse]
frozen silence.
but for the rustle of breeze
against dry grass.
snow will come,
and a crust of snow
will settle in crystalline
interlock with the brown stalks.
the snow will absorb sound,
muffling reality,
until nothing remains but
frozen silence.
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One Day: Four Seasons [Haiku]
a full four seasons, from snow to sweaty t-shirt: one mountain pass
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Bone Cold [Blank Verse Sonnet]
From a stove-heated room, the snow brightens one's mind with hope that all will be made clean, but cleanliness is next to nothingness and nothingness is next to loneliness. From inside, snow is silencing and light. It's fine and shifts like sand in desert dunes. It's silent like the depths of a cabin at midnight on the prairie before time. From outside, snow saps all of one's resolve, and makes one wish to flee the purity it pretends to generate all around. The cold, it bites like a full-body vice. The feet go numb, but brains... they fire wildly -- they shake one awake, but dare one to sleep.
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Long Shadows [Haiku]
well-trodden snow is checked with long shadows from the afternoon sun
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Pale Orange [Haiku]
the tallest peak catches the rising sun, & glows pale orange
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Snow Birds [Haiku]
Winter’s Eve [Haiku]
the crunchy snow of a cold winter's eve -- tomorrow's gray slush
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