Winter Monoku Poems

   Ah, communing with Nature is nice
      'til Winter arrives with its ice

   But this year...

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Freezer door open hazed air erupts first taste of winter...

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By Poet "Tears are rain from the eyes."

Last night it rained~a very tearful God...

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suddenly 
winter’s
icy
fist
is
unclenched
...

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winter
came as
a hearth song
bequeathed by
black 
cradled 
stars...

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during winter
the 
old oak
no longer
hides
its
scars...

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she is 
an ever-glowing 
pink rose
in winter 
   with 
sun-kissed
  petals

her diamond
quill flickers 
gold across 
the cosmic 
  canvas 
of soupers

...

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cold winter
comes
as an
artist
in her
medium
of
ice
...

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First morning catch- frost bite...

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wind-rippled
sheet of
cinnamon clouds
spread across 
cornflower sky
warmth
...

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Shakes the trees in the house sending it's cold chills through the rafters...

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Today we experienced our first winter storm. The polar vortex rumbled its way towards Texas and in its wake, it left us with snow and...

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winter
has plumbed
the icy 
depths of
my
heart...

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just sharing another vertical Monoku betwixt me and you

winter’s 
galaxies
travel 
the streets
erasing 
all our
edges
...

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What follows are two 'vertical' Monokus

the frost
 comes as snow
without cloud, 
bringing brilliance
 to the 
dawn

shortly
it will
rise up
into blue sky, 
a soft vapor 
in the...

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