Seasonal Poetry
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hilly evenings
announce the season’s cold edge out just north of town
by Patrick Harvey the starlight appears sharper bits of ice and diamond
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under a blanket arly winter sunset
after a clear blue day violet horizon broken by a skyline sparkling with office lights quickstep of holidays marching out of darkness into a new year promising something more chilly evenings
made of the remains of fall life slows to nothing winter mushrooms take refuge waiting for just their moment steel gray afternoon brittle grass under cold feet challenging this wind season of simplicity nothing extra meets the eye black and white landscape bare trees casting long shadows pointing to my door
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ew growth spring and summer
rewards of the harvest each have their own moments then circle out of view in winter the earth rests harvesting the fallen to make new beginnings feeding winter mushrooms and hoarding hope for spring
back turned to a cold north wind hurrying home to supper kitchen in winter rich scent of mushrooms and herbs fogging the windows a frozen afternoon with warm stew and a crust of bread this day is for cold spring barely a rumor spread by the old folks today we warm ourselves with the plain pleasures of winter under our blankets winter drifts slowly away into dreams of spring
Images created by Irani and Daouma Jeong from the Noun Project
planting in the ground renewed by all we lost in the fall Cultivate SA | 37
