@dailyhaikuprompt

A scarf full of threads,
woven from the memories
of each year, instead

#SmallPoems #DailyHaikuPrompt

I'd send warm wishes,
but since Climate's changed winters,
that's no longer cool.

#haiku #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #winter #warm #heat #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #metaphor #imagery

I'd send warm wishes,
but since Climate's changed winters,
that's no longer cool.

#haiku #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #winter #warm #heat #UnseasonablyWarmWeather #metaphor #imagery

@Algot

Warm beds bring slow things;
a poem, delayed, makes its way,
folded into day

#SmallPoems #SundayHaiku response

(I thought I had missed your poem and then remembered to circle back around)

morning came same time
but found me tired in bed,
cozy, so late start

#SundayHaiku
#clmooc
#smallPoems

@dailyhaikuprompt

A pattern of art,
the Chestnut's bark twines itself
all around the tree

#SmallPoems #DailyHaikuPrompt

@dailyhaikuprompt

On a jaunt through woods,
pause at the tracks of a bear -
the path, disappears

#SmallPoems #DailyHaikuPrompt

to carry within us an orchard ...
-- Li-Young Lee, From Blossom
https://poets.org/poem/blossoms-0

Some of us bloom as flowers,
buds on a green stem,
with roots taken to soil

Succulent fruit, ripe
as rhymed words,
poems on branches of trees

Others of us wait in cold,
huddled up, battened down
for season's change

The pit we feel inside
our stomach may yet become
the seed of nourishment

A final #SmallPoems for Advent of Joy, with thanks to @deannamascle for her calendar of poetic paths #clmooc

Close Enough To The Solstice

I thought of my father's praying
as I came to the shore
in star light and fog to sit patiently.

Is this glass empty or full of cutting wind?
the order of time eroded our firm arrangements
analogy without ground still points to the sky
a tree's shadow shelter from the blowing sand

I wait for the sun to turn back
a breath in, a whispering
a walk to the west in the dark
do my feet slow the earth's turning?

...

#SmallPoems #CumberlandIsland

https://li.mnino.us/luke/close-enough-to-the-solstice-for-human-concerns

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings
-- Muriel Rukeyser, Elegy Of Joy
https://poets.org/poem/elegy-joy

A story, unspooled,
still has its start
somewhere --

Untangle the lines
of rhythm and rhyme
to find the nub

and pull

#SmallPoems for Advent Of Joy

An hour ago the storm was here
-- John Keble, The Rainbow
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/john-keble/the-rainbow/

And now,
the debris;

the world
pulled apart -

We wipe
our eyes free

and get down
to work

#SmallPoems for Advent Of Joy

My heart to the recurrence of the springs
-- Robinson Jeffers, Wonder And Joy
https://poets.org/poem/wonder-and-joy

My heart to the subtle breeze of the wind
My pulse to the music of the rivers
My love to expanse of the infinite forests
My joy to this intricate world

#SmallPoems for Advent Of Joy

Hold still, Climate Change.
Please just let me live my life.
Let loose on my kids.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDenial #ClimateCost #family #love #sacrifice #irony #cost

There is no loneliness like theirs
-- Jeffrey Wright, A Blessing
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46481/a-blessing

An old scarf
worn loose
on the shoulder,
nearly falling
until her fingers
reach up to set me
straight, and
I only realize
in that tender
moment of hers
the cold air
that's been
consuming me
all this time,
my mind
so lost, so deep
in thought

#SmallPoems for Advent Of Joy

Hold still, Climate Change.
Please just let me live my life.
Let loose on my kids.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDenial #ClimateCost #family #love #sacrifice #irony #cost

I will wander to the woodland
Where the laden trees await
-- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nutting Song
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/paul-laurence-dunbar/nutting-song/

Pausing, in my walking,
to ponder the sound
of the wood and all
that we should appreciate
in these days of constant
rambles - this quiet reduces
the daily chaos to shambles -
and I am now following
the fox into who knows where

#SmallPoems for Advent Of Joy

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