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 -- Patina of Time
cracks and crevices
make life more interesting
patina of time
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Fractal
repeating pattern
expanding and contracting
fractal symmetry
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Phoenix
new form emerges
what was no longer exists
a phoenix rises
#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 -- Giving Tree
planted during grief
yet each spring blossoms returned
grateful to plum tree
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Touchstones
personal touchstones
reminders in my pocket
what do you carry?
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Cup of Calm
a balm for the soul
warming from the inside out
pour a cup of calm
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Glow
a luminous glow
precedes the coming darkness —
heralding nightfall
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Interdependance
flora and fauna
a symbiotic cycle
interdependance
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Al Fresco
snowy afternoon
delays al fresco dining
hope springs eternal
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Paradox
Christmas paradox
fragile baubles still with us
but not their humans
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Christmas Buddha
seated stone buddha
surrounded by Christmas
multi-cultural
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Cup of Calm
the end of the day
tuning out to then tune in —
soothing cup of calm
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Eyelashes
cascading branches
with layers of soft eyelashes —
winking at the wind
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Akimbo
tree all akimbo
apt metaphor for this year
looking for new growth