Rain Splotch[Haiku]

chilly winter day,
prismatic splotch in sky—
no bow, no ring.

Long Shadow [Haiku]

Winter sun
casts long shadows
through dead grass.

The Fray [Lyric Poem]

Rainy December day
blows in - not long to stay.
From season to season,
without any reason,
sometimes we feel the fray.

White on White [Haiku]

angular granite:
softened by snowfall,
erased by cloud.

“The Snow Man” by Wallace Stevens [w/ Audio]

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

PROMPT: Cold Weather

How do you feel about cold weather?

In the abstract, sitting here in the tropics, I’m fond of the idea of winter. When I’m in cold weather, I’d prefer not to be.

City Winter [Haiku]

trees, straight & bare, 
line the boulevard. one leaf
blows across the walk.

“Now Close the Windows” by Robert Frost [w/ Audio]

Now close the windows and hush all the fields;
If the trees must, let them silently toss;
No bird is singing now, and if there is,
Be it my loss.

It will be long ere the marshes resume,
It will be long ere the earliest bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
But see all wind-stirred.

DAILY PHOTO: Buda Spires in Winter

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Edge of Weather [Haiku]

Winter day:
bright sunlight at cloud's end --
glassy river.