Day Snow Poems

I reached a hand 
Into the snow
The chilly ice
Once vibrant glow 

It's Winter's wish
A painful spree
The absent warmth 
Of no degree

Although I try
To stay alive...

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Mini Poppadoms

Intensive
can you hear the intensity
Mr freeze step aside
I have flies and they are my new friends
The crackle of the snow,whip and blow
The cackle of...

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These are English translations of Issa haiku about the seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter.

Autumn wind ...
She always wanted to pluck
the reddest roses
?Kobayashi Issa translation by...

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Beautiful Snow
 It has been too long to catch up and say hi.
 We both know that time flies by.
 Where have you been all...

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It was only a sprig
of red berries poking through
a mantle of snow.
But something in their quiet defiance—
so small, so sure, so bold—
stopped me in rushing...

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the outside floated inside
white seeds seemed fluff
floating & frolicsome
until their rooted relic
of bitter dandelion wine
wished we hurried
to busy our bones
do something thoughtful.
yes..we’d pluck a stem
or...

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I. Sighting

I saw you  
through refracted light-  
a prism of chance  
splitting ordinary into spectrum.  
Wind-tangled hair  
terra cotta and...

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A queen was spinning flax one day.
She gave her loom a jerk.
(Don’t ask what “flax” or “looms” might be,
or why a queen must work).

She pricked...

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Sprinter

In a mid-March one day, the cold wind blows hard and the snow falls faster. Hoping for Spring warm, but getting March colder.  Winter’s...

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The fog sits heavy on broken ground,
Snow lays light where the stubble’s browned.
No sun, just hush and hoofbeat slow,
And breath that drifts like chimney smoke.

The...

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“So fickle are Earth weather schemes;
 help Winter steal Springtime's new dreams.”
             ...

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The fruit smoothie spun on the smoothie machine,
as I looked out the window at large snowflakes falling to the ground
I watched, as I was led...

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So here in early April 
snow lays on the ground.
Flakes are flying in the air, 
they're everywhere to be found.
And as the day progresses on
thunderstorms...

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first day of spring
sunny and mild

as the snow-smelt
of hidden greens

below a blue sky
this weekend


len

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The driveway is now a swamp of wet muck,
I fear driving any car but the truck,
without four-wheel drive, you’re gonna get stuck;
oh mud season has...

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