Tag: winter

Existential Pleasures

Snow dusts the hills
Rice flour on sourdough crust
Endless patterns
In burnished bronze

No subject
No object
No meaning

The explorer’s
Essential pleasure

Existential textures

Water’s souciant song
White as the snow still falling
Nature’s whisper: shhhhhhhh

A blanket of newness
Illuminated by the glow
Soon to become
Yesterday’s sun

I make my way
Down channeled paths
Wending through
Hardship and trouble

To overcome
My flow adjusts
Weaves a line
Ofttimes turbulent

While rocks and stumps
Which interfere
I push aside
With force of will determinant

And rest I may
In respite of pools and lakes
To carry on with grace aplomb
Through demise and rubble

Soft and sharp
Lavender petals fall
On broken glass

So is the acceptance
Of our sad reckoning

Embraced in tears

Dawn already
Come and gone
First sun reflects
From wintry throne
Beneath the glow
Of cloudless sky

I hold my grief
In chill repose
The magic light
Has challenged woes
Soon comes the smile
Upon the sigh

On a crisp December day
Atop an inverted sky
Snowy clouds
Blown across the ice

Thighs itch
From penetrating chill
A wan sun
Does nothing to warm

A few moments here
To record the scene
Then retreat
To the warmth

Of electric fire
A sugary cup
Of cocoa
And family

Curled up
In my armchair
Of ice and snow
Cozy and warm
In a place I adore

Gentle current
Beneath the ice
Downstream rumbles
Break the crust
And I am freed

The freeze is coming
Soon will river ice over
You below the ice

A promise of possibility coming
Here the night made bright
Though by no small trickery
And patience

Moonglow breaks the darkness
While the stars take flight
In the cool blue of winter chill
But for the warmth of amber hearths