WINTER’S SONG
Like a crazed banshee, the bitter wind moaned,
while snow coated limbs until the trees groaned,
branches thrashed windows in cacophony —
a harsh melody that winter intoned.
9/8/94 Phyllis DeWitt VanVleck
Posted in Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged banshee, cacophony, crazed, groan, limbs, melody, moan, snow, song, tree, wind, winter on Thursday,December 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
WINTER’S SONG
Like a crazed banshee, the bitter wind moaned,
while snow coated limbs until the trees groaned,
branches thrashed windows in cacophony —
a harsh melody that winter intoned.
9/8/94 Phyllis DeWitt 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 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 Nature, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged birds, freezing, garden, guard, scarecrow, snow, summer, weather, winter, yard on Thursday,October 29, 2009| Leave a Comment »
GARDEN GUARDIAN
Tired old scarecrow, tattered and torn
Looking shabby and quite forlorn
His clothes are ripped from summer wind
Gaping where they once were pinned
Months ago, in summer sun
He proved his worth with job well done
While flapping arms in disarray
He made the crows stay well away
But now birds perch upon his hat
And snow piles high to smash it flat
He’s seen to shiver more and more
Freezing to his very core
We’ll bring him in where it is warm
Where he’ll avoid the winter storm
I’ll fill his sleeves and sew his rips
Of course I’ll repaint eyes and lips
And when the winter weather’s gone
Just as birds break into song
He’ll take his place as garden guard
And keep the crows out of the yard
11/14/04 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
Posted in haiku, My Thoughts, Nature, Poetry, tagged blanket, earth, robe, winter on Wednesday,January 28, 2009| Leave a Comment »
HAIKU
Season’s cover-up
new white blankets fell last night
earth sleeps in cold robes
9/2/06 Phyllis DeWitt
Posted in Nature, Poetry, tagged cold, frozen, rhyming, willows, wind, winter on Saturday,November 29, 2008| Leave a Comment »
WINTER
Fierce wind is harsh upon the land . . . .
new snow is cold and deep,
the willows sway and weep.
September’s passed the torch, as planned . . . .
frost atop frozen ground,
as earth sleeps without sound,
for winter now assumes command.
9/9/04 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck