Winter walk

a clear winter dawn

a dull lawn wakes up glinting –

time for a crisp walk

A hazy finch

a hazy finch cheers

for the sun – the morning mist

clings to the window

The first wink of spring!

they grope the cold

slowly before opening –

the willow’s catkins

 

Colours

colours fade

autumn fleds the branches –

before the first snow

Winter is coming

colours have faded –

the autumn wind takes his leave

with a frosty wave

Winter glamour

the first frost

throws a coat of glamour

over the last rose

 

The packing boy

the packing boy

yearningly watches them go –

white sneakers

Patient ladies

Patient ladies

peep over magazines –

guessing where it aches

Big dreams

an ostrich sprints

it cranes its neck to the sky

and spreads its wings

Dizzying heights

dizzying heights –

not even in Manhattan

do they reach Heaven