Winter wind brings spring
The smell of blossoms on it
As sky’s blue deepens
2/11/2023 – turning inward
When shadowed musings enter me
Unbid, with ill intent
I pause and wonder what they see
In me that can be bent
And to those parts I turn my gaze
And build upon their bricks
So that the sickly shadow-rays
Can never fit betwixt
2/10/2023 – dawn
Dawn breaks
And the birds awaken
And the boughs creak
‘Neath the wind
2/9/2023 – a haiku
Shadows follow me
Even past crooked corners
Ever just behind
2/8/2023 – guiding light
The horse hooves beating trouble me
As they come down the lane
Of mental pathways I can’t see
Amidst the foggy plain
I wonder what those drums portend
And when they’ll reach my sight
If they foretell my story’s end
Or tell of guiding light
2/7/2023 – a wiser thing
As the last frost melts
I will harvest what grew
From the seeds
Deep in my soul
Embraced in the cold
Guided through the storms
And if the stars will it
Emerge unbitten by that frost
A wiser thing
Than I was before
2/6/2023 – a haiku
Let’s hang some branches
And dance beneath the starlight
Like dawn will ne’er come
2/4/2023 – let it go
Why must my tired heart suffer so
For what it can’t control?
2/3/2023 – a haiku
Let us start a fire
And burn away winter’s chill
Burn till spring arrives
2/2/2023 – grey upon grey
The grey winter
Tightens its unseen grip
Silently
Wordlessly
Enveloping all around
Until such a time
As the emergence of the sun
Would go unrecognized
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