Haikus, Poetry and more January 2026

1.	Mångata

shimmering night cadence
skipping across a frozen plateau
Mångata reverie

2.	Autumn’s Play

leaf-whistles
needles oscillate
psithuric wind song 

trees shimmer
deeply yawning 
anticipation stirs

aureate
honeyed, tawny, burnt
Autumn's play

3.	soulful

a soulful tune
summer's harmony in sync
cicadas sing.

4.	psithuric whisper

psithuric whispers
a wooed heart-
her breath catches

rimes - rapid freezing of water vapors

Submission to Wales Journal 2025
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rare fire horse
forward, focused, adaptable 
old notions gone

coming moments 
of wonderment and awe
touching the soul

In God's Word
seek perspicacious
clarity.

He has given us the Holy Spirit

burnishing glow
the Cold Moon kneels,
terrestrial kiss

brushed golds
silver highlights
lush greenery

5.	
Oneiric trails

ice feathers
scrape the sky

dancing while tomorrow 
sleeps

beneath your pillow,
wonder waits

6.	Crepuscular Moment

burnishing glow
the Cold Moon kneels
terrestrial kiss

7.	Winter’s Deep Sleep

moonbeams prance 
atop the subnivean zone, 
a gentle nightlight 

winter's shield 
snow blanket or hoarfrost, 
what holds, what rimes, 

what fails, or what thins

silence broken 
predatory footfalls 
winter creaks 

relentless onslaught 
of graupel, freeze and thaw-
precarious

safely tucked 
in the between, nestled deep, 
all sleep
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Nature’s Fury

blissed ignorance 
twirling in the wind
a prelude

whispered chaos 
distance rumbles 
sirens forewarn

impending danger 
thunderous clouds clash
hook echo forms

wrapped winds, 
dark tornadoes swirl, 
March roars

nature’s fury 
in the eyes of the beholder-
watch
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Before Tomorrow Wakes /
With a crescent wink
 and radiating argent hues, 
the night sky wakes. 

Tomorrow sleeps 
while silver beams thread through the darkness, 
inviting whimsy 
to skate on imaginative trails. 

Dreams dance. 

Slow, quick-quick, slow-
 a small step etched 
with sandy footprints. 

Chimerical images skirt 
golden pathways 
across a sea of midnight blue. 

Suspended momentarily 
from Ganymede's summit, 
hangs a breathtaking view. 

Laced with ice feathers, 
dreams frolic on 
through the night sky, 
searching for sky treasures. 

Stories lie quiet 
in star streams 
as wide-eyed tales 
fill the mind's eye. 

Tomorrow wakes.

dreams collide
with opportunity
a star is born

Star Streams/ Before Tomorrow Wakes/ Prose
With a crescent wink and radiating argent hues, the night sky wakes. Tomorrow sleeps while silver beams thread through the darkness, inviting whimsy to skate on imaginative trails. Dreams dance.  

Slow, slow, quick-quick, slow, a small step etched with sandy footprints. Chimerical images skirt golden pathways across a sea of midnight blue. From Ganymede's summit, a breathtaking view is suspended momentarily.  

Laced with ice feathers, dreams frolic on through the night sky, searching for sky treasures. Stories lie quiet in star streams as wide-eyed tales fill the mind's eye. Tomorrow wakes.

dreams dance
on silvery moonbeams,
tomorrow sleeps
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burnishing cerpuscular glow
Earth's kiss in terrestrial embrace
Cold Moon rises

short form

burnishing glow
The Cold Moon kneels
terrestrial kiss
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rare fire horse
forward, focused, adaptable 
old notions gone

coming moments 
of wonderment and awe
touching the soul

short version
clarity
focused awe
renewed

Happy New Year!