The weather
felt seasonable
the day of All Saints
but today
we are back
to open windows and cats
basking in the sun.

Tenacity

The flowers
that hang on until
November
has arrived
still bloom with tenacity
despite the first frost.

I’ve neglected my blog for many months. To kick myself back into gear, I’m doing 30 days of poetry. This time I’m using a form called shadorma-—a 3/5/3/3/7/5 form. The form can include multiple stanzas, but I will be doing well to create one a day. Here is day one:

Late Bloomer

Three weeks late,
Autumn finally turns
to reveal
in stages
most spectacular color
hidden until now.

Merry Christmas, everyone! Today’s Christmas Day hymn is Break Forth o Beauteous Heavenly Light by Johann Sebastian Bach. sung by the Roche Sisters on their We Three Kings album. 

On the longest night, the night of the Winter Solstice, here’s a song for the first day of winter. Asleep the Snow Came Flying by Tim Story, is from the Windham Hill album, a Winter’s Solstice IV.

We are four days from the winter solstice, and overnight the earth turned white and ice coated the shrubs and birdfeeders. So it seems most appropriate that today’s Christmas tune is In the Bleak Midwinter. The words are those of English poet Christina Rosetti. There are hundreds of recordings of this song, but I chose Sarah McLachlan’s version from her Wintersong album.