Light – Page 65 – Iron Haiku

Prints

walking in the snow
grinning as you casually
step in my footprints
–
robin tracks-
early spring
snowfall

a new day dawning
stale vestiges of the past
left by the roadside
–
first light-
the morning star
through hollow trees

chasing the sunset
just over the horizon
ever out of reach
–
hoary grass-
the sky aglow in
morning twilight

visiting the well
my wooden bucket dipping
deep in the moonlight
–
alongside the lake-
the harvest moon
follows me home

splintering sunlight
broad winter shadows reaching
out across the lea
–
fresh snow-
a smattering
of paw prints

lies in the mirror
not what we truly are but
what we wish to be
–
leafless-
reflections in
the watery sky

the year’s longest night
herald the winter solstice
ere the morning comes
–
watching our breath-
the black of night
pierced by stars

early morning haze
the pale tint of the full moon
just above the trees
–
first light-
the fog and I
rise together

air laced with woodsmoke
thick with a rich silence as
the rain turns to snow
–
twilight
listening to
the snow fall

the low midday sun
shadows of geese noiselessly
passing overhead
–
dancing water
a clingy black shift
of morning ice