DAILY PHOTO: Skaters in Monochrome

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Piano Mind [Haiku]

snow has fallen.
cars of many colors, all white:
a piano-esque lot.

Buffeted [Haiku]

wind buffeted:
the coast is vibrant green
but wintery cold.

Golden Grass [Haiku]

Winter drains color
from the barren woods, but
tall grass turns gold.

DAILY PHOTO: Perching Cardinal

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Cold River [Haiku]

goose at water's edge:
cold river flows around
unmoving legs.

DAILY PHOTO: Monochrome Danube

Quiet City Snow [Haiku]

overnight snow
falls on a quiet city;
it awakes to white.

DAILY PHOTO: Winter Scene from Buda Castle

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“The Human Seasons” by John Keats [w/ Audio]

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Spring's honied cud of youthful thought
he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness -- to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature.