excerpt from a haiku volume in progress


winter haikus

virgin icicles -
frozen memories of rain
adorning branches
*
riotous sparrows
quarreling over gobbets -
morning polemic
*
soft whirling snowflakes
play in the air around me -
frozen butterflies
*
crows circling chimneys -
winter's cold soliloquy
on a smoked canvas
*
on a fence, some snow –
white appears so much whiter
next to rusted bars






Poetry by Lilly Negoi
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Written on 2012-12-31 at 07:55

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2013-01-01


countryfog
Winter seems to engender certain sensibilities and perspectives that the other seasons do not . . . we have to look harder past the austerity and lack of color and warmth, find in the pale light and shadows of a black and white palette a simpler way of looking at things. There is actually more depth and distance to places now, especially here on plains and prairie, more to see if one chooses to look beyond the usual boundaries. Your crows on a smoked canvas, snow as frozen butterflies, are perfect examples.
2012-12-31