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Category Archive: Winter

Bent birches bowing / bearing the brunt beneath / back-breaking burden. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
08 Mar

Bent birches bowing / bearing the brunt beneath / back-breaking burden.

Variations in a key of “B” alliterations: Twoku: Bent birches bowing / beneath back-breaking burden / of burgeoning snow. Threeku: Bent birches bowing / beneath back-breaking burden / bombogenesis. I…
2018/03/08 at 12:04 pm Leave a comment
The lion of March / storming out of April's room / roaring as it leaves. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
03 Apr

The lion of March / storming out of April’s room / roaring as it leaves.

Twoku: Frantic flurrying / Spring unsprung, now uncertain / in Winter’s last blast.  – the Haikook
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Brain bewildered by / blustery blowing bending / branches, buds, blossoms. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
03 Apr

Brain bewildered by / blustery blowing bending / branches, buds, blossoms.

Twoku: Buds, blossoms bedecked / April adorned awfully / in snow, ice crystals.  – the Haikook
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Friendship's potential / stolen from me and others / by the thief of days. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
01 Feb

Friendship’s potential / stolen from me and others / by the thief of days.

Twoku: The book of friendship / many chapters unwritten / my co-author died. Threeku: First, last exchanges / with a recent friend, now made / precious by her death. Fourku:…
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Sun painting shadows / freshly-prepared white canvas / of new-fallen snow. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
24 Jan

Sun painting shadows / freshly-prepared white canvas / of new-fallen snow.

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Artificial pause / a normal day, repurposed / to contemplate self. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
01 Jan

Artificial pause / a normal day, repurposed / to contemplate self.

Twoku: First day of the year / our excuse to contemplate / evaluate self. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  – the Haikook
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Luminaries lit / celebrate end, beginning / circle of life, time. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
31 Dec

Luminaries lit / celebrate end, beginning / circle of life, time.

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Warm Christmas Day walk / beautiful cacaphony / all cultures, all faiths. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
25 Dec

Warm Christmas Day walk / beautiful cacophony / all cultures and faiths!

I went walking with my family, for two miles at the beach, on the warmest Christmas Day of our lives so far. We expected a few non-Christians, of course, but…
2015/12/25 at 9:58 pm 1 Comment
Dawn below freezing / sudden, chilling reminder / winter follows fall. // micropoetry - haiku
19 Oct

Dawn below freezing / sudden, chilling reminder / winter follows fall.

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Cold day lamenting / the return of the lion / bitter and biting. // haikumages
09 Apr

Cold day lamenting / the return of the lion / bitter and biting.

Twoku:  A raw day / unseasonable / spring un-sprung. Threeku:  Raw, biting / the lion returns / with a cold. Fourku:  The roaring lion / continues ferociously / scaring the…
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Car coated in frost / as March reminds us coldly / winter’s not yet done. // haikumages
19 Mar

Car coated in frost / as March reminds us coldly / winter’s not yet done.

– by the Haikook
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On the mountaintop / my shadow starts at the top / ends at the bottom. // haikumages
04 Feb

On the mountaintop / my shadow starts at the top / ends at the bottom.

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Whether and whither / the weather, we wonder and / wander, unknowing. / haikumages
25 Jan

Whether and whither / the weather, we wonder and / wander, unknowing.

Twoku: Whether and whither / the weather, continues an / unsolved mystery.  – The Haikook
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People came and went / cold morning snow set about / covering their tracks. / haikumages
09 Jan

People came and went / cold morning snow set about / covering their tracks.

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Sun rays of false hope / bright, bitter day, defenseless / against cutting cold. | haikumages
07 Jan

Sun rays of false hope / bright, bitter day, defenseless / against cutting cold.

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Champagne aftermath / a row of empty glasses / one glass left half full. / haikumages
01 Jan

Champagne aftermath / a row of empty glasses / one glass left half full.

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A winter weapon / the Shovel of Damocles / hangs in the garage. Haikumages
06 Mar

A winter weapon / the Shovel of Damocles / hangs in the garage.

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Lovely icicles / remind us the house is not / well insulated. Haikumages
04 Mar

Lovely icicles / remind us the house is not / well insulated.

And one more, from a different angle, with delicious blues… These cold, clear days are misleading…near zero (fahrenheit), but with a brightly glaring, blaring sun overhead – don’t be fooled! …
2014/03/04 at 8:42 am Leave a comment
New snow falling on / old snow, adding fresh insult / to my injuries. Haikumages
15 Feb

New snow falling on / old snow, adding fresh insult / to my injuries.

Twoku: Newly falling / falls on and covers / the fallen. Threeku: New snow taunts / it’s falling for me! / No it’s not.  – the Haikook
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A chill wind / that blew nobody / any good. Haikumages
25 Jan

A chill wind / that blew nobody / any good.

Twoku: The weather last week / brought in a chill wind that blew / no one any good. Derivation: obviously the Haikook is commenting herein on the big chill currently…
2014/01/25 at 11:08 am 1 Comment
A snow-raining day / weather unsure of whether / to chill or warm up. Haikumages
18 Jan

A snow-raining day / weather unsure of whether / to chill or warm up.

Twoku: Snow-raining / day can’t decide to / chill or warm.
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