Winter Haiku



Winter's frigid ice

On the crystal star

Reflects cold light spears.

Sharp are the angles

Of the hard and wayward heart,

Wintry like ice freeze.

Numb with cold, pain's gone;

Freezing cold wraps around wounds,

Living held at bay.

Winter landscape shrouded;

Snow drifts drew patterns in swirls

Of winter language.

Snowfalls hid tree barks;

Starving squirrels and deer gnawed,

Digging below snow.

A pallid full moon

Silvered exposed green slivers,

Shadow conifers.

Snow layers lifted

In the wake of warm spring breeze

To bid "Goodbye  Winter"!

About this poem

An exercise in haiku

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Written on April 08, 2022

Submitted by rojajv on June 14, 2022

Modified on April 10, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X X X X A X X X X X X X X X X X X A X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 560
Words 120
Stanzas 20
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

Rosy V Pynadath

I grew up on the coastal Kerala in India. But, as an adult, I moved to upstate New York in the winter season. I have gone through 53 winters now. By writing poetry, I withstand the winter. Sometimes words and sensations come to me and I write poetry. more…

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