Winter’s Lace
Vibrant winter blooms
cast against a snowy canvas,
beneath brooding skies.
Amaryllis’ view from the window,
periwinkle winks in reply,
whisper-warm
A little ray of sunshine,
brightens winter blues,
Winter jasmine.
Persistence cold,
dancing flurries.
Pansies thrive.
Deep into winter
Primrose’s colors delight.
Stark against the snow
Pale Season of Titivated Lace
(rewrite of Winter’s Lace)
Vibrant blooms ignite against a blank canvas under brooding, iron-gray skies.
Amaryllis gazes out from the window; a periwinkle winks back, whisper-warm.
Across a stark alabaster landscape, autumn falls silent while pansies thrive.
Bleak, bitter, yet, in defiance, Narcissus lifts its radiant face for all to see.
A little ray of sunshine, burnishing a crepuscular glow, Wendy’s Gold rises.
Lucille’s Squill’s whimsical scent swirls with the turning season.
Write an imaginative landscape poem without using snow, snowy or wintry terms.
Winter's Lace cont-
Varied highs and lows,
February vacillates.
Snowdrops appear.
Narcissus’ beauty
shines for all to see,
defying winter’s hold
Colorful and sweet
Pansies’ cousin, Viola,
a winter survivor.
Glory-of-the-Snow,
star-shaped and whimsical,
greets winter’s end.
Wassailing through their quarters, Holly and Ivy sang yuletide tunes.
Preening on the desert table, a bourbon-soaked fruitcake that could render a sailor drunk in minutes.
And next door, the inflatable dancing Santa, now plastered like an Andy Warhol-inspired Art Deco project. TopTweetTuesday challenge.
long-awaited
brilliant hues
fleeting
Long awaited
brilliant, burnt, tawny
fleeting
Extravagant
Encore dance
Nature's splendor
Dancing in the wind
Feels like Freedom
unabated
November's finest
Harvest hues
Beaver's night light
seasonal shift
burnt, buff, earthy,
ushering in sienna hues,
autumn's display
long-awaited hues
brilliant, buff, earthy
wind song
seasonal shift
burnt, buff, earthy,
ushering in sienna hues,
aureate
honeyed, tawny, burnt
Autumn's play
anatomy of a tree
bare for all to see,
bone deep artistry
Silent church bells
Once a beacon of light
God's Word still rings
shopping cart battle
obstacles along the aisles
thanksgiving gaming
Rustling leaves,
trees shiver, yawing deeply-
anticipation.
Fall's first scent hovers
in between the blurred lines
of a seasonal shift.
Leaf whistles,
needles oscillate in a
psithuric wind song.
Crimson hues slip through
the mizzling mist of
Autumn's play.
Seasonal timing
grounding roots, true friends are the
rings inside.
Oneiric trails
ice feathers
scrape the sky
oneiric impression
dancing while tomorrow
sleeps
oneiric interludes
beneath your pillow,
lies wonderment
o·nei·ric- dream-like quality
Learning to use a new word in a haiku.
black silhouette
dark blues and grays
rippling thoughts
haiku for lake picture
@KarynCurtis21
Early morning on the lake ❄️
Imaginative trails laced with ice feathers,
Puck's in the wind searching for sky treasures.
Oneiric trails
ice feathers
scrape the sky
burnishing cerpuscular glow
Earth's kiss in terrestrial embrace
Cold Moon rises
short form
burnishing glow
the Moon kneels
terrestrial kiss
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Rhonda Bronte Brown is a National Board-Certified Teacher and retired teacher/counselor whose work has appeared in Better Than Starbucks, The Trouvaille Review, Meat for Tea, The Orchards Poetry Journal and The Best Haiku 2025 international anthology and several online journals. She holds both a BS and a Master’s degree and writes children’s literature and poetry exploring nature, SEL, and STEM.
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