Behind Weeping Birch
rosy clouds
- Happy New Year

blue tits
defer to sparrows
a thrush ignores the dogs

water droplets
suspended in a lattice of dreams
the mist draws back

difficult...
deep-snow-walking--I pause,
to write this
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..Copyright 2010 Spiros Zafiris
..channeled, spirit Ram;
reaching into the poet's heart
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midnight fog
turns streetlights into haloes
hungry fox darts past

tilting at the world
the late morning finds
a smaller snowman 

Blithe Spirit 
vol 20 no. 4 issn 1353-3320 (2010) 

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bleary solar orb
 still gummy with last night's mists
barely sees the day

'Cross the Winter sky 
 Sirius hounds Orion 
 big screen , slow motion

heavy rain thunders
into dark, silent streets
willow trembles

hear the reports
of lights in the sky
- another year drawn to its close

flurries of snow
shroud the path, the trees
the rubbish bins

the sun behind clouds
lights them like magma
frost hardens

fairy lights
on a christmas tree
a present unwrapped

first christmas

your warm smile recalled
won't release this hard ground
entombed by snow

Christmas truce -
a small spider
crosses the kitchen

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trêve de Noël -
une petite araignée
traverse la cuisine

a magpie darts
its's wings a Chinese fan
dislodging snow

snow turns to ice
a blackbird squeezes
under the bird table

A reminder
have to meet my wife
under the mistletoe

pink and lilac
sweep through the morning sky
a flock of sparrows

all day sun
a crooked snowman drops
his M&M smile

we run to the store
to look for the present
the full moon over us