Tuesday, 1 February 2022

WINTERS GRIP

 

The snow has settled on us

Like a shroud.

Each day growing deeper

Silence fills the emptiness of the landscape

But for the ghostly sound of the wind

High in the treetops

The meadows and fields have vanished

The river flows mute beneath the ice

The next valley is unreachable

The mountains as unattainable as the Moon

But soon spring will release the land

From its icy captor

And the winter we be no more

Than remembered conversations

Beside the roaring hearth

SNOW BLIND

 

Since the snow began to fall

My wife has done nothing at all

But stare blankly through the window

As the snow lays snow on snow

If it continues in this way

We shall have a white Christmas day

But my wife stares through the glass

As the snow falls thick and fast

Sadly, if it gets any worse outside

I'll have to let her come inside

Sunday, 23 January 2022

WINTER HAIKU # 1

 

A hushed silence

Had descended on the landscape

With the gentle snowfall

THE SNOW FELL ON THE VALLEY

 


The snow fell on the valley
Lightly covering every acre
A generous white dusting, as if
Sugared by a cake decorator

OLD MAN WINTER’S TOUCH

 

Old man winter’s touch

Transforms the landscape,

Trees wear a frosting

As if dusted by a baker

Snow fall blurs the edges

And disguises definition

Of familiar landmarks

And frozen streams appear

Like pure white ribbons

Casually discarded in the vale

SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE CLOUDS

Some people are like clouds In strange kind of way Because when they fuck off It becomes a beautiful day