Mourning Star
The stillness of a fleeting winter scene…
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January
The light is unmistakable in January…
Read More JanuaryMt. Lebanon Cemetery
A frigid January afternoon in the Mt. Lebanon Cemetery
Read More Mt. Lebanon CemeterySnow (V)
Author’s note: I know, I write a lot about snow! I don’t know what it is about seeing the snowflakes blow in the winter air that just makes me get all poetic. It just seems so natural, something that nature has done forever, and I’m kind of in awe of it. Same re: rain! Snow […]
Read More Snow (V)Winter Solstice
The shortness of the day The bleak midwinter gray Glints of light fall from the tip of the icicle To the hard earth pooling and collecting, they lay.
Read More Winter SolsticeSnow (II)
Out my window the snowflakes dance. From my tower I watch them fleet, float, fly – on the frosty back of the Western Wind. Their mistress is fickle and cold, not caring where they blow. Chaos; wonderful, unchecked, to the ground below. My mistress is too, as frigid; but I am frozen, slowed. Left to […]
Read More Snow (II)The Start of Winter, and a Loss
My beloved cat of 7 years, Frodo, had to leave this world on December 18, 2015, only a few days before the Winter Solstice. She was very sick with cancer and had fought bravely for 6 months. She didn’t want to fight anymore, she decided she wanted to rest instead. We helped her leave this world peacefully and […]
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