so many winter coats hanging on my iron hooks waiting to be born and in my fire place a billion burning violins #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka OK sorry . . . I know — it's just that I love Leonard Cohen

4 in the morning silence slices through my mind the clock says "hello" #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

a winter lady all dressed up in her coat of famous — ice blue and the flapping tattered rags feathered by this constant wind #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka #LeonardCohen

on the distant ridge a pebble in a universe the full moon rising #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

winter feels replete and frost lingers — night and day prefer? what's to prefer its hoary breath imbibes my soul and spring will never ever come #haikufeels #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

oh what a fright our old age is in sight not ready for night we age all together though each person in turn will wake with a fright and when it's all over we're placed in an urn and then it's your turn warning you are reaching the end of the conveyor #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

feel your spirit stir waking from these dorment years and stagger into love #haikufeels #Haiku #senryu #tanka

trust in gentle time to right your sleepless wrongs and bring a quiet peace and lay the ghosts to rest and all your sins — release #Haiku #senryu #tanka

time feels slower now as all the threads break down and words unravel #haikufeels

beside each fireplace the ancient stories told and retold once again drifting in the chimney smoke across the countless centuries #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

impregnate dilate imbibe ingratiate adulterate excoriate incinerate #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

it feels so cold now sun all tangled up in trees as the dim light fades #haikufeels

The Infinite Return i stood at the edge of my memory and found the same beginning not a circle but a spiral returning in disguise each time the wind is colder but the fire is mine #poetry

in your soft down skin and your wide open valleys detachment fades — away #haikufeels

winter drinks the sun imbibes the very stuff of life then turns to spring #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

above the flat snow stark tussocks of withered grass all that remains — now silent winter witnesses whipped by the ice cold wind #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

our hand picked tea leaves cross oceans of hot tea times to touch thirsty lips and her smile — where can it be with her fingers stained by tea #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

across the village bonfire smoke swirls on the wind sliding up still streets #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

withering light shadows slip through the bare boughs dancing on cold ground #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

before the sunrise right at the back of my mind raking over the past #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

a bitter north wind slipping through the needles of the pines lament rocking the cold hard earth into a deep deep sleep #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

a bitter north wind slipping through the needles of the pines lament #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

mid winter's full moon bright on the first white snow and the burrows buried deep #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

autumn illusions swept away in the first snow the last falling leaf #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

at the masquerade all the guests pretend to be just like you and me #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

childhood fades and all the world's wonders slip into the shadows #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

all that's left for now an old dusty mantelpiece and your fading smile #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

in the fading light of a cold winter's day geese flying south across the valley smoke drifts in the early mist and windows light and children call their final games played out in the gathering night #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

through the window a cold winter sunrise lights my hearth as cold now as yesterday and colder still tomorrow #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

geese on migration flirting in the slipstream of generations #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

overhead geese slip past calling — through the clear cold air to the turnips below #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

a bright clear day and still the frost persists glistening cold #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

moon rise breeze brushing off the last few leaves into the dark night #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

lifting my spirit on this bleak winter's walk lark raise memories #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

in the warm wet breath of a mermaid in a sushi bar we eat raw carp and while staring at her tail I'm reminded of your smile #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

edge of dawn — no word from yesterday tomorrow, too far away #Haiku #senryu

desolate laughter of the cold graveyard wind blowing through the stones #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

foggy nursing home the grim reaper wobbles in the wind Halloween trinkets #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

each passing spring so full of ripening hope from desolation #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

this desolate night pumpkin heads waking the dead children laugh instead #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

There was a young girl from Dublin town who dressed up daily as a circus clown and she sang a song of joy and mirth along with her friend of exceptional girth

from first startled cry to our last breathless groan entirely alone #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

in the soft light of your late autumn smiles I see you so well #haikuinlove

now — after the storm even as the high tide turns it bides its time #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

this soft autumn breeze and the casual coolness of the season's shift #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

life's long ebb and flow our hopes and dreams wash up upon a distant shore #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

these last ripe fruits sinking slowly into winter on cold autumn earth #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

in its last dark days autumn breaks the subtle bonds to summers bright light #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

sticky sweet pear juice drips from children's young chins bathed in their laughter #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

a new haystack moon slips through as lovers kiss unseen by sunlight #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka