I've been looking at SNOW for weeks, here in the Rockies. Soooooooo, time for a WINTER haiku! 5-7-5, as with the autumn challenge.....pick up the last word of the posted haiku and make it the first word of your creation :) **** Season of Wonder Hearts filled with Peace,Joy and Love banish all sadness **** However you celebrate the coming days, Enjoy!

Calls softly, gently Words fall like snow on rough ground Soothe my troubled soul

Rest, perhaps to sleep Drift gently from wakefulness Softly dream of love

Love, in gentle night. Mother swaddles holy child. Comfort for the world.

world of many hues all joined in a hope of Peace if for just one day

crave the ol fruitcake? every sumptuous crumb? use it as doorstop :)

Crave the cold weather L.A. Xmas day sun burns Wash the truck in shorts

two "craves" at once. netsia by 20 minutes. I'll try again.

doorstop wedge of brass family pours in craving food Spam suprise awaits (extra points for working "Spam" into the holidays?)

breakfast fast broken more inches visit the beltline New Years compact nigh

Underneath the cold Skin of winter there beats strong The heart of summer.

nigh on to midnight visions swirling in his brain Santa cues the elves? **** There's always room for Spam, or is that Jell-O? lol

elves and elven kings fairies dancing, fairy rings, stuff of fantasy

frosty land so Bright evening star shines in the sky birth of a new Child

child-like wondering stars, new births, new beginings happy endings sought

all of the forest patinaed with crystal glow icicles cling fast

snow falling softly gently covering harshness smoothing out wrinkles

eternity here the forest cathederal shines softly in moonlight

Moonlight on new snow. Such purity rarely found, In oft cruel world.

future of the flake coverlet for hidden bud water for it's root

merging into one, the melting snow rivulets refreeze at course end

See my reflection in the frozen winter lake. I don't have much time.

time you go to school haiku last word first in next RTFM mate (The Art + TheAlex) garbleOCDsnix

mate haiku last word to the first word of your own voila, new haiku :)

Haiku for winter Celebrates cycle of life, Refreshing the Earth.

earth dark under snow: gay colors are discarded amid tear-drenched clouds

clouds billow in sky dispersing feathers of snow angels fluffing quilts?

quilts layer low hills criss-crossed by impatient feet stitching through the snow

jewels of frozen snow dripping like diamonds from trees Tiffany of ice

jewels of ice: festooned twigs glisten and glint, glittering sequence. Sorry, but I had to pun on sequins. ;^) In the Arabian Nights, those were the coins of the realm, although I can not imagine being paid 100,000 sequins, much less wearing my wealth! A traveling merchant seeing a web swaying in the breeze of a frosty morning might have thought of a sparkling dancer.

time catches my thoughts and binds them frozen and stiff to drop like dead birds (we've got an overlap)

Snow-flakes fall in hand,
they melt just as they land there.
I still wish for more.

I really have no idea why I didn't start my Haiku with the last word of the previous post, as I was completely aware of the rules! I've even looked at every previous Haiku to see if one ended in 'see' and I made some sort of error that way. Ah well, just keep checking that syllable count...

Message edited on: 12/31/2005 10:29

I overlooked the challenge requirement too. Apologies to the participants.

more....snow ice rain mix mountains now have 8 foot base happy new snow year :D

Year of illusion we mark the distance in air of time's arrowed flight

hazardous beauty - ice cracks away revealing heart broken and blue

horizon of light etched figures ever circling inside silver cup

touch the eagle's heart as it soars over the clouds feather drifts in snow

Snow caught on the tongue. Flightless angels on a hill. Children love winter.

overtake the wind - clouds race with playful dragons entwining wet walls

Walls of icicles Prisms for the sun shining Rainbows through my panes

Panes of glass reflect the dreary puddles outside. My snow has melted.

Reflections frozen. Over the shimmery iced lake, see the children skate.

skate as if children never feeling cold to core enthralled when you glide

Squeal now, with delight. The sled, like a rocket, flies! Beware of the tree.

Night blankets the Earth. A cold wind sighs through the trees. Nature awaits Spring.

Spring blossom awaits to pretty sparse winter trees. Joy for all who see.

see with all your heart as well as with open eyes know winter's glory

glory upwelling star by star by fiery star floating like candles

Die! I will take all, freeze and rage and steal light. For I am Winter. *** It doesn't seem like you're aware of the syllable count Acadia?

I've been doing it wrong? Sorry :( I'll bow out. I wish somoene had told me sooner. Carry on and have fun. :)