New year

 

The water

that flows

on either side

of this intentional

division

is the same

What enters this river

upstream

ends up here

both rainwater

and poison

fallen leaves

and discarded trash

So too

today

will flow

into tomorrow

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Dove

 

Sheltered

in snowy pine

I hear your

call

we humans

name it 

mourning

to you

its conversation

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Accumulation

 

The snow

begins to fall

again

so light

nearly invisible

but soon

a flurry

is a drift

is a mountain

So the years

accummulate

until memory

is decades

deep

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Memory[alize]

The moments

we wish

we could live in

Still

and hushed

or

noisy

and rushed

The moments

we want

to remember

The details

the textures

smells

sounds

The moments

we think

we won't forget

The moments

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Winter white/ Evergreen

 

The wished for

white

so clean

so bright

reveals

the overlooked

evergreen

stalwart

and quiet

among spring's

joyful leaves

now brings

lustrous color

to a pale

afternoon

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Drowsy

 

All morning

drowsy

Lady Sun

snuggles

in downy layers

of fog

and cloud

Perhaps

I'll join you

for midwinter

nap

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Christmas Dawn

 

Lady Sun

encirles the world

in her dawn embrace

so even sunset's west

is wrapped

in her rosy arms

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