fallen leaves
the robin thinks I'm ripe
for a back massage
David Cobb
weak sun
a wren for a moment
on a fence post
Thomas Powell
east wind
blackbirds attack
the red berries
Rose Ades
a holly wreath
on the door of the flat
dustbins wait in line
New Year’s Eve:
coloured lights shimmer
on the black river
azure sky
bare twigs stretch
into the sun
Dennis Tomlinson
wind comb
the last leaf drops
winter knocking at the door
Madeleine Weeden
Far across
The winter fields
In evening sleet ...
White egret to the pond.
(Kitasaga, Kyoto, 20.12.14)
Tito
deepening sun
oak’s winter shadow
lays peace on the land
Margaret Deimel
snow
stretching fields
far farther out
Leo Lavery
frosted field –
a fox peers
through a world of tinsel
Ron Woollard
winter stars
breadcrumbs
sinking
Paul Chambers
snowfall at night
so much softer
the flakes' landing
Klaus-Dieter Wirth
growing older
letting his hair stay white
for Christmas
New Year dawn
first thrush cracks
a snail
Kevin Goldstein-Jackson
winter’s first snow …
a fairy tale ending
before it begins
David J Kelly
final leaves -the trees embedded
in their history
Katherine Gallagher
frosted roof –
the smell of coffee
and your warmth
Claire Knight
shortened days
rising mist
wood smoke
Derek Hughes
the cracks
from a hundred years ago…
winter draft
Kohjin Sakamoto
cold house
all her papers
in metal boxes
one fir at sunset
sharpening
an arrowhead
scudding clouds –
a winter moon
races the car
Graham Duff
whey-faced
a January fox on
our threshold
Chris Luck
frosty morning
the old cat
hunts a housefly
Ann Thomas
Out of touch with things
watching the last winter fly
sitting in zazen
clouds cover the sea –
drifting calmly between them
the winter moon
Bill Wyatt
intide
gulls crew an ice floe
upriver
Ian Turner
first day of winter
the porosity
of cloth
snowmelt
the mountain at a doe's mouth
stops midstream
Edward Beach
early
spread across clear cold sky
singular birds
Di Davy
sun shines
through winter rain – a goldcrest
along the fence
the many stems
of coppiced trees
shadows in low sun
Jo Pacsoo
filling
the monk’s begging bowl,
snow
beginning to freeze,
the moonlight
with this old man
Kohjin Sakamoto
square dancers...
the frosted ruffles
of flowering kale
Debbie Strange
on a white field
a crow cries soundlessly
- words murmur within
Les Prince
black beaks
in red flesh
in snow
Autumn Hall
spider fleeing the cold
taken up gently and
shaken outside
Norbert Hirschhorn
horizon cloud
in the crook of a swan’s neck
winter sun
back from Africa
ostrich plumes in hoarfrost
on the car roof
Keith J Coleman
a lamb mac
on a rusted barb . . .
false spring
Claire Everett