celebrate with sweets
beginning of a new year —
good riddance last year
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Breakfast Companion
outside and inside
observing each other eat
breakfast companion
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Frozen
encapsulated
artifacts frozen in time
remembering fall
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Words
What words will we hold
which ones will we embody —
there is a difference
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Cheers
a message appears
in an unexpected place —
thank you Sam Adams
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Community
solitary flame
multiplied by hundreds more
forms community
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Christmas
Christmas memories
past mingles with the present
hope for the future
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Snowmen and Christmas
feeling gratitude —
snowmen and Christmas still come
in a pandemic
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Year to Year
scent of cinnamon
lingers on the index card
year to year to year
#HaikuChallenge20 -- Overflowing
boots, mittens, and hats
basket is overflowing —
and so is my heart
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 -- 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