Art, haiku, winter

Polar Vortex Haiku!

Posted by Red Balloon on

I’ve joined the Haiku Challenge from RonovanWrites again this week! The words for this week’s challenge were “teeth” and “bite”. Wintery words for me! Went for a drive and saw pristine winter landscapes in the middle of a cold snap.Like so many, I was fascinated by the light. But the bone chilling cold bites hard!

Winter Fields, Kaushalya Bannerji, 2021

  1. winter bites me hard 

bones and joints bare teeth even

biting back in pain

2. Winter’s teeth bite the

early dark. Tree branches like 

exposed skeletons…

3. Beautiful light, sun smiles

through biting blue. We smile too, 

teeth flash— trees wave arms!

Published by Red Balloon

I am a chronically ill queer artist and writer. I have a number of degrees in higher education and have spent most of my life interested and active in social movements against racism, militarism, misogyny and homophobia. Over the course of my life, I have worked in the world of alternate news, translation, law, teaching, and with progressive cultures, music, poetry, performers, and artists. I speak and understand a few languages and plan to share media in them on this blog. I am a poetry, art, music, and nature lover with an especial fondness for cats!

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