traded snow for sand/
grateful to recalibrate/
now time to return
#HaikuChallenge21 -- Patterns
one tile at a time
shifting the rows and columns
patterns now emerge
#HaikuChallenge21 -- Win-Win Day
seeking out shelter
filling up at the buffet
it’s a win-win day
#HaikuChallenge21 -- New Day
a new day dawning
filled with promise for women
light and hope prevail
#HaikuChallenge21 -- Fool's Gold
do not be deceived
fool’s gold is bright and shiny
but it lacks substance
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Frozen
encapsulated
artifacts frozen in time
remembering fall
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Year to Year
scent of cinnamon
lingers on the index card
year to year to year
HaikuChallenge20 -- Adieu
patiently waiting
under a blanket of white
adieu until spring
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Enchanted Village
appears once a year
mist lifting like Brigadoon
enchanted village
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Transformation
forlorn, leafless plant
inside for the winter months
transformed by baubles
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Juxtaposition
new england footwear
golf socks inside winter boots
juxtaposition
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Winter Wonderland
magical moment
nature’s meringue piled high
winter wonderland
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Alchemy
tattered recipe
pulled from a holiday tome
kitchen alchemy
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Fractal
repeating pattern
expanding and contracting
fractal symmetry
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Protectors
protector duo
keep watch in light and darkness
unmoving, silent
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Christmas Cactus
solitary bud
a year of uncertainty —
still the cactus blooms
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Paradox
Christmas paradox
fragile baubles still with us
but not their humans
#HaikuChallenge -- Thanksgiving
Year of joys and fears
giving thanks for all of it —
it is what it is
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Lost and Found
strange little creature
found in the back of a drawer
made me smile today
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Hats
who will wear these hats —
made of hope and compassion
with wishes of warmth