December Sun (a collaboration w/Peggy Goetz)

The following post appears today, 1/29 in the Imaginary Garden With Real Toads poetry site. I wrote this Haiki in collaboration with Peggy Goetz, a fellow poet.

Thanks so much Peggy!

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December sun

peeks through gray smiling

for late roses damp with dew

Petals of faded velvet

recall their glory days

She stands at the window

remembering, sighs

as soup pot boils over

Red cardinal alights

upon rusted sled

Scarlet melody wakes

summer memories

lovers walk entwined

Hearts naked dancing

with electric hunger

Fingertips buzzing

Each touch a playful sting,

kindling sleeping skin

August blaze lingers as owl

moon lights dark eastern sky

Silent, wolf moon stalks

owl among stars 

Plaintive howls in the snow

Soon pups will play in spring bright

dales as all begins again.

by lolamouse and Peggy Goetz

submitted for Imaginary Gardens With Real  Toads,  In Tandem