Temperate climate
soil is loose and ready
to cultivate
arugula radicchio
celery cabbage kale
chard favas beets
made it through
kept warm under snowfall
now start to grow
nibbled by rabbit and slugs
buds swell on the fig
red of rhubarb emerges
cold brewed
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dVerse prompt to write a quadrille and use the nibble word.
I was snowed in for days
kept the fire going in the woodstove
plenty of food in the pantry
wind picked up the drifts
moved them to fencing
all the while I fed logs
into the crackling fire
waiting for the thaw
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dVerse prompt to write a narrative. I am traveling in North Dakota and imagining what it would be like here in winter.
November pulls the daylight shorter
crisp long shadows
a cool moon
hallways of justice écho
will there be unfaithful electors
in this month of political aspiration
migrating birds begin their journey
when there is snow on the ground
they will come to the feeder
Today the hawk came
perched on the fence
I do not want to witness
hawk swooping
to squirrel or bird
or my small dog
the hawk
ready
with talons
and hunger
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dVerse prompt on November combined with prompt on witnessing
Travelling with the storm perched over the canyon we head to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon both going there the storm moving faster along the rim while we drive over the plateau happy to be dry in these moments arriving at the campground everything is wet but the storm has passed the sky clears revealing the colors of layers of chiseled rock lit by the setting sun
Two years later I travel that same road there is no storm but snow is on the ground where the Cat Fire burned last summer we watched it burning from deep in the canyon hotshot fire fighters called in helicopters fly in and out delivering their load plumes of smoke rise over the Kaibab Forest we float safe on the water of the Colorado River and smell the air from 8,200 feet above now the snow covered ground hides the char of the Cat Fire black surrounds the base of these ponderosa pines others are burned completely pinyon junipers pine needles scrub brush 4500 acres burnt from a lightning strike
There was a time I walked away from a disagreeable circumstance. I walked into a cold night, dressed for winter with boots on, leather jacket, long hair covered with a hat.
Not sure of the way home, I only knew that north would take me to the main road and then west would take me home. I walked miles under an unnamed moon.
I remember the crisp air, blue of the snow, ice crunching under my boots and how the light fell against the snowbound trees. I felt lost while finding my way home.
Blue freeze of winter
Beauty penetrates the night
Leads a path to home
Today it is cold in Florida
there is ice on the wires
frost on pine and palmetto
mittens are sold out at Walmart
everybody has something to say
about the weather
waiting for a change of tide
a new moon or south winds
today that north northwest
brings down a chill
threatens snow in Florida
Winter on the Gulf Coast
isn’t always tropical breezes
blowing in from Belize
expect a hard freeze tonight
the northwesterly delivers
a harsh blow of minus below
picked up in Iowa
swept across plains
and plantations of Alabama
and Georgia
onto the fronds of palms in Florida
Accept the unexpected
everyone trying to stay warm
and make a buck
cover everything up
don’t let your pipes freeze
as the temp goes 25 degrees
cold sunshine of Florida
be ready to lose heat
prepare for more sleet
is climate change real?
it’s 20 degrees in Florida!
a real Florida freeze
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camping in Florida in the cold and dVerse prompt to use areas of silence in the structure of the poem
New Year’s Eve had snow
Cold and windy
13° warming up
Robersons shoveled walk and drive
Sunny -8°
Starting to snow
16° cloudy
Snow 1″
Robersons shoveled our walk again
Snow again 1″
Robersons shoveled!
Started snowing about 2″
Robersons shoveled again
Didn’t do anything
too cold and windy
Still cold and windy
20° below zero
30° below zero
Our house nice and warm
0° warming up
16° snowing
Snowed most all day
Robersons shoveled again
Still snowing
4″ fell since yesterday
Robersons shoveled our walk
-20° sunny
More snow
Still below zero
Robersons shoveled again
-13° sunny
0° warming up
Snowed a little in the night
Robersons shoveled snow
21° windy
Snowed all night
Robersons shoveled our snow again
-2° windy blowing snow
-10° cold
31° warmed up
Warmed up
Warmed up
Warmed up
20° started snowing and blowing
20° snowing and ice
Trees and wires covered by ice
Ice still on trees
Lots of broken limbs
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Memoir of Iowa winter January and February 1985 and good neighbors to my aging parents
so cold the tulips sag
grass disappears
garden of white washed trees
sticky snow
roll the biggest ball you can
picks up twigs and grass
leaf from autumn
roll past tulips bent
who felt that spring had come
prickly spring
send your chill down
over everything
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NaPoWriMo prompt Day 9 – Nine Line Poem
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