Winter

All the best to my fellow haiku and poetry creators -- I wish you peace this holiday season and for the year to come.

thin stirrup of crescent moon
cradles evening star --
sleet pings on my office window

lacework of mist
rolls down through dark pines
my breath rippling morning's first tea

drifts of white
lace the windows --
pearled edge of lunacy

tapping the old wood of desire --
under darkness river folds to ice

howling --

me or the wind?

winter drips -
puddles in my brain

ruffling the still whiteness

birdsong --

spring cannot be far?

thick skin of ice
full wolf moon --

I feel a howl rising

a thin gray light --

the weight of winter

new snow --
a lovely silk layer over black ice

the sound of deep winter no sound

on the table
a knuckle's worth of nuts --
over-indulgence

Solstice Rose

photograph by poet/artist

snow and ice burn through
the brief daylight hours --

the arc is complete

bone-cracking cold descends --

Debussey warms the house

icy shards
pure color
petals break off at my touch --

wind whispers in the trees
earth expectant
we embrace an old friend -- snow

maple leaves lean
weeping on the lawn

geese fly
on the wings of winter