sparkling in the sun
deadly white and cold as ice
winter’s wicked gift
Is it over yet? Thanks to Yvette and the Tanka Tuesday Challenge.
ode to winter-a haiku
Tag: snow
the landslide (with apologies to stevie nicks)
your touch, tremoring
a mirror in snowy light
our love, reflected
Thanks to Fandango’s FOWC for the opportunity to indulge my love for Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac.
Snow Light
forest snow ignites
starlight and frolicking flakes
exhilaration
This haiku was inspired by the fine folk at
Your Daily Word Prompt (exhilaration)
and
The Haunted Wordsmith (took a few liberties with these prompts: snowy forest and starlight)
Visit their sites for more fun prompts and lots of great writing.
Winter Comes
Unbidden flurry
Nature’s scythe forsaking fall
Fractured and formless
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This is dedicated to my northern family and friends enduring their second (or is it their third?) early snowfall of the year. Florida has its faults (and boy this summer was HOT and LONG) but aaaaahh the winters are SWEET.
Bike/Skyway Bridge photo courtesy of author’s awesome spouse.
Thanks to the following for the inspiration for this haiku. Visit their sites for info on the prompts and for some great writing.
Sue’s snow photo prompt and Putting my Feet in the Dirt’s word prompt (fractured and formless) and Heeding Haiku for asking me to think about seasons and Autumn’s end.
Alarm Bells
Like the last two driving days, this one began with a pre dawn alarm. Coffee. Quick shower. Out the door. COLD! Wind chill in the 20s. Frost on the ground. BRRRRRR. But the early start meant we got to see another spectacular sunrise. This time over the flat vista of Indiana.
Still exhausted from our last two driving days–and with fourteen hours to fill–we knew we needed an extra boost. And for us that’s soundtracks. yes. We are car singers! Rocky Horror Picture Show started the day. Book of Mormon in the middle. And Hamilton got us through the last three hours. In between we listened to the entire pod cast– Dr. Death. Good. But scary.
Our food choices also seemed to be under the Influence of our exhaustion. Carbs. Fat. Sugar. Pancakes in Indiana. Blizzards in West Virginia. McDonald’s in Maryland.
Exhausted, sugar buzzed, and also exasperated by the thought of sitting in traffic after google warned us of a crash delay, we decided to reroute through West Virginia. Although longer, this turned out to be a top drawer choice. We got to see some beautiful and interesting stuff. Warning. It was hard to get pics. Moving car. Weird angles. Blurry. But I still caught a few things.
This power plant against the mountains looked like a castle to me.
We were in the middle COAL country but we spotted these beautiful windmills.
And on the subject of coal country, here’s a miniature golf course I’d love to play!
Best rest stop view I’ve ever seen. WOW!
And there was SNOW!
But as night fell the scenery was losing its luster. And it was getting harder to disguise our irritation about being in the car so long. So we were thrilled to see the city come in view. DC!!
A short walk. A quick drink. And an early bed. Only to be woke at 3:30!!! By a fire alarm. Ordered to evacuate the building for our safety we bundled in sweatpants and jackets and made our way down the stairs to the street.
Lucky it was a false alarm. But let’s hope it was the last alarm for a day or two!!!
Till next time.
Tina Stewart Brakebill 