52 Cleveland Haiku (8)

Sunny winter day:

birds twittering in my yard,

snow melt drips from eaves.

--Geoffrey A. Landis

52 Cleveland Haiku (6)

White flakes in grey sky
Garbage cans layered in white
Deer tracks on the snow.

--Geoffrey A. Landis

52 Cleveland Haiku (4)

Slick ice-covered roads
Work is closed; a perfect day
to write poetry

52 Cleveland Haiku (3)

Groundhog day report

falling snowflakes dance,
a sheen of ice covers snow:
no groundhogs in sight.

52 Cleveland Haiku (2)

snowflakes

glistening

paint the shape of air

52 Cleveland Haiku

Sparkling whiteness
the city renewed in snow--
far-off plows rumble

Snoetry review

Worth checking out: T.M. Göttl's Cleveland Poetry Examiner column at examiner.com reviewed last weekend's "Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest" poetry festival in Erie PA.

The Snow

The Snow

It sifts from leaden sieves,

It powders all the wood,

It fills with alabaster wool

The wrinkles of the road.

It makes an even face

Of mountain and of plain, --

Unbroken forehead from the east

Unto the east again.

It reaches to the fence,

It wraps it, rail by rail,

Till it is lost in fleeces;

It flings a crystal veil

On stump and stack and stem, --

The summer's empty room,

Acres of seams where harvests were,

Recordless, but for them.

It ruffles wrists of posts,

As ankles of a queen, --

Then stills its artisans like ghosts,

Denying they have been.

--Emily Dickinson

photo by Geoffrey A. Landis, 2009

• link to Snow poems and poetry