Category: Seasons

• Day 4

  wind obscures all it runs through does not know its own name or mine; I give it my leaf

  Jenifer

  April 4, 2015

  Dying, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 3

  dried wheat bending, kneeling in the soft breeze open a path to deep underneath

  Jenifer

  April 3, 2015

  Dying, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 2

  crisp seed pod warmed in afternoon sun hollow now seeds scattered but one, bursting toward sky

  Jenifer

  April 2, 2015

  Aging, Death, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons, Tanka

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 1

  tree stands alone empty black branches yellow-gray field I am not afraid to come to you

  Jenifer

  April 1, 2015

  Death, Family, Memory, Nature, Seasons

  nopowrimo, poetry

• Twin waters

  Water runs in streams through sandy swales, clear and cold and quick, carves underedges along tiny banks, trails pebbles too large to carry forward, and returns again in its own path to the great, wild churning. .. Water glides over broken asphalt, shifts its course over sharp, jagged cracks, deposits mud, clay from baseball diamond…

  Jenifer

  March 10, 2015

  Chicago, Dying, Meditation, Nature, Pentwater, Seasons

  #dversepoets, poetry

• First snow

  A tiny, frozen splash alights under my left eye. What is falling at 6:05 a.m., here, in the dark? Black sky speckled with street lights and white clumps, fumbling onto my face and jacket. I heave in to feel the cold rush enter my nostrils, then throat and chest. It cleanses with a shiver. I…

  Jenifer

  February 4, 2015

  Bite-sized sampler, Chicago, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  poetry