Winter Haiku
Winter's frigid ice
On the crystal star
Reflects cold light spears.
Sharp are the angles
Of the hard and wayward heart,
Wintry like ice freeze.
Numb with cold, pain's gone;
Freezing cold wraps around wounds,
Living held at bay.
Winter landscape shrouded;
Snow drifts drew patterns in swirls
Of winter language.
Snowfalls hid tree barks;
Starving squirrels and deer gnawed,
Digging below snow.
A pallid full moon
Silvered exposed green slivers,
Shadow conifers.
Snow layers lifted
In the wake of warm spring breeze
To bid "Goodbye Winter"!
About this poem
An exercise in haiku
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Written on April 08, 2022
Submitted by rojajv on June 14, 2022
Modified on April 10, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X X X X X A X X X X X X X X X X X X A X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 560 |
Words | 120 |
Stanzas | 20 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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