Hope is Green


bluejays shake their wings 
cottonfloss snowflakes tumble 
snowdrops dip low  

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January Snow


Snow on holly branches,
icy cold freezing my nose —
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On a Cold and Frosty Morning

February glumps and glooms. 
Evergreens don snowy costumes.  

Swansdown swirls in the frosty dawn, 
and the wind’s song is woebegone.  

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Snug and Cozy

snug and cozy 
despite the gales of winter, 
family and friends: 
carols, games, laughter and fun, 
serious thoughts left behind  

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To February

our bluejay jeer-jeers 
amid newly-forming buds 
before he disappears

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Done and Dusted

cold dust,
tree branches creak and crack, 
brilliant sparkles blind 

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Down a Stream

with permission of Hanna Greenwood

Every moment we had
together
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Dreaming of Stars

powder for skiing, 
snowflakes dreaming of stars, 
icy, frozen breath 

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Winter Silence

the silence of snow, 
a cathedral of stillness,
until snowplows roar 

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Winter at Last

From Cold Spring Park, Newton, Massachusetts

in uncovered ears, 
ice-flakes tickle and tease
driven by bitter winds 

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First Dusting

The low, white sky 
yields 
a first dusting of 
snow 
and leaves tremble. 

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Sunset in Westford

Picture Credit: Leela Obilichetti, Westford, MA

Sunset sledders, 
free and unfettered, 
plummet downhill, 
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