Winter Haiku: Add your own!

It’s finally winter here in northern Illinois, with an icy cold snap and a thin blanket of snow.  A new season calls for fresh haiku!

Haiku are a pleasure to write and read — they allow us to focus our attention on one small thing or moment.

I would love it if readers would add some of their own in the Comment Box.   And don’t worry about the syllable counts if you don’t want to — that 5-7-5 is random anyway.

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the world’s white blanket

wraps around us, its warm ice

ensuring re-emergence

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early morning dark

a breath-holding quiet

where thought deepens

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careening on ice

our cars sashay wildly onward

eyeless but like us

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black lines against gray

the swipes of a fountain pen

branches in winter

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pond ice cracking

movement from the lurking deep

where shadows awaken

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plodding through winter

we await the ebullience

of a tree frog’s croak

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