A Hundred Gourds

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the rough and the smooth
of another year ...
winter birch

Thomas Powell - N. Ireland

winter fog wondering where the year went

Beverly Acuff Momoi - U.S.A.

bare trees
a clearer view
of my neighbour's lot

Nu Quang - U.S.A.

winter afternoon
an ant climbs
its arc of sunlight

Rosie Roumeliotis - Greece

winter night
I collect her warm
memories

Pravat Kumar Padhy - India

frozen ground
Rhode Island Reds
peck my shoes

Adelaide B. Shaw - U.S.A.

winter chill
a rat sneaks behind
the smoky stove

Barbara A. Taylor - Australia

an old man's dreams
not enough to fill
this winter night

Bill Kenney - U.S.A.

deep winter
they compare the size
of their rifles

Melissa Allen - U.S.A.

winter solstice
cleaving the dark
a sickle moon

Liz Rule - Australia

raven song I shudder inside you

Mark E. Brager - U.S.A.

winter doldrums
watching the dust bunnies
multiply

Beverly Acuff Momoi - U.S.A.

deep winter
on the sonogram screen
a grinning skull

Mark E. Brager - U.S.A.

winter storm
finishing her eulogy
by candlelight

Tracy Davidson - U.K.

The winter moth –
the smallest of angels
flying drunk

Ronald Baatz - U.S.A.