* cardinal / fluffing his feathers / for insulation ['13]
* neighbor's board fence / topped with a white layer / of freezing precip ['23]
* holly tree / drooping deeply / -- its ice burden
* yucca's green / barely showing / with its ice cover
* new jigsaw puzzle / pawing through the pieces / hunting for borders ['24]
* The "Let / it Snow" napkins / at my computer, need / replacing with "Hurry up, Spring / HURRY!
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(NOTE: Since I can't figure out how to get single spacing, for the following poems, a forward slash means a line break. (Now how did this get to be single spaced???)
CINGUAIN SEQUENCE (1.9.'25)
A few/ very large flakes /keeping the weather folks / honest about their prediction/of snow.
Snowing/ harder, but still/ large flakes, yet birds keep on/ eating. I, too, am eating, but/ inside.
CINQUAIN (1. 10. '25
Nearly/ a foot of snow/ meant daughter couldn't get/ her car turned around in the yard./ No work!
HAIKU (1. 14. '25)
snow slowly melting / even a squirrel / under the feeder
CINQUAIN (1. 14. '25)
Hearing / a plane, I look / skyward. No plane up there / but I see a star!--a rare treat / here 'bouts.
CINQUAIN (1.16. '25) AT AGE 88
For the / first time ever / I got to ride in the / cab of a wrecker towing my / dead Ford.
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--- 23 degrees/ first day of the year, I read/ Season's spring haiku (Carolyn Thomas)
--- 18 degrees/ hoping the feral cats/ find a warm place
--- the eternal hum/ of the fan used to block/ teenager's TV (Season's line)
--- picking up/ morning, afternoon papers/ at the same time
--- during the morning/ birdbath water/ turning to ice
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