HAIKU
Pine needle carpets
embrace the cold forest floor
before the first snow
3/18/90 Phyllis VanVleck
Posted in haiku, Nature, Poetry, tagged carpet, cold, floor, forest, pine, snow on Monday,November 23, 2009| Leave a Comment »
HAIKU
Pine needle carpets
embrace the cold forest floor
before the first snow
3/18/90 Phyllis VanVleck
Posted in Humor, Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged bed, bruised, cold, flu, sled, sneeze, winter on Thursday,November 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »
WINTER WOE
Today it’s very cold outside
Drippy nose
Frozen toes
Weather’s right for a nice sled ride
Cough and wheeze
Great big sneeze
Snow-fun beckoned, and so I tried
Slipped and fell
Painful yell
Bruised my body and my pride
Home in bed
Bandaged head
Tomorrow I will stay inside
1/4/90 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
Posted in Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged cold, cough, harvest, leaves, wheeze on Tuesday,November 17, 2009| Leave a Comment »
WINTER CURSE
When harvest days are over
And leaves have left the trees
November blows her cold breath
And we all cough and wheeze
11/02 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
Posted in haiku, Nature, Poetry, tagged canvas, cold, fall, hand, Masterpiece, winter on Sunday,November 15, 2009| Leave a Comment »
HAIKU
Fall’s great masterpiece
wiped from nature’s huge canvas
winter’s quick cold hand
3/16/90 Phyllis VanVleck
Posted in haiku, Nature, Poetry, tagged Brittle, cold, dance, death, leaves on Wednesday,October 28, 2009| 3 Comments »
HAIKU
Brittle umber leaves
pirouette to the cold ground
in their dance of death
3/14/90 Phyllis VanVleck
Posted in My Thoughts, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged clothing, cold, cry, forlorn, scarecrow, shivers, summer, tattered, torn on Saturday,April 25, 2009| Leave a Comment »
SAD OLD SCARECROW
Sad old scarecrow, tattered and torn
I think I heard him cry,
or did the wind just sigh?
No wonder poor thing’s so forlorn —
no duty to uphold,
he shivers in the cold,
in summer clothes he’s always worn
9/9/04 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
Posted in Animals, ecology, haiku, Nature, Poetry, tagged April, birdhouse, cold, eggs, surprise on Thursday,April 16, 2009| Leave a Comment »
HAIKU
April’s big surprise
icicled birdhouse shivers
blue eggs, marble cold
3/14/90 – Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
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