Winter Haiku

These were posted on Real Toads: http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-tuesday-platform_18.html  This is also being posted on dVerse Open Link Night for Thursday.  Winter haiku because as Cole Porter says:  “It’s Too Darn Hot”.

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l.
a hawk glides over
skeletal trees – winter blue
sky shows no mercy
ll.
silent neighborhood –
distant crows break the silence –
cold and still today
lll.
the grass is brittle and
frost covers everything –
at noon no melting
IV.
dead leaves carpet ground
beneath bare trees – end of
fall…winter begins
V.
bitter cold morning –
quick whiff of wood smoke before
nostrils become numb
VI.
spits of icy rain
bitter wind tossing tree tops
spring seems distant dream
VII.
brown hillside – splashes
of green cedars – small creatures
find food and shelter
VIII.
bitter winter night
first light of day first snow falls –
branches bloom white
IX.
midnight – snow flowers
spiral down and quickly die
on my outstretched hand
X.
cold winter dawn –
from across the field floats the
caw of a lone crow

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