Haiku Upon a Mild Winter – Winter and Spring Poetry

unnurtured by snows the weary earth exhales; now the riot spring __________ sitting under trees in march, i pen haiku, sigh, and feel unseasoned

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Dried Leaves, Bare Branches – Waiting for the Winter That Never Came

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Cattails Again – A Pond in Forest Park – St. Louis

It suppose it is pretty clear that I am a bit of sucker for cattails. This is the same pond from the post last week, but the lighting was so nice this evening as I was riding by and the cattails were starting to break apart, so I had to stop again. My all-time favorite [...]

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Old Playground Pavilion After Light Snow – Tower Grove Park – St. Louis Winter

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Animals Always by Albert Paley in Snow – St. Louis Zoo – Forest Park

I have always thought that this massive, intricate sculpture by Albert Paley does not get the attention and accolades that it deserves. One reason that this may be so is that it is made from weathering or COR-TEN steel on which the outer layer rusts to form a protective coating on the steel. This means [...]

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The Pale Blue House – Dawn and Dusk and Dusk From Another Day

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Gumballs in Snow with Bicycle Tracks – Tower Grove Park – St. Louis

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After the Burn – Winter Pond in Forest Park at Dusk with Cattails

I am in a slideshow/gallery spurt, it seems. Sometimes when there are a variety of decent shots from a particular location, it is nice to feature a bunch of them in an album of sorts. If you want to see a larger version of any given shot from the slideshow above, click on it in [...]

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“Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain” – Trees for Joyce Kilmer

I have at least one friend who finds Joyce Kilmer’s poem “Trees” to be sentimental doggerel, and perhaps it is. With its gentle lilting rhythm, fanciful personification, and deference to God, at the very least it seems old-fashioned. Perhaps these are the very reasons that I like it quite well, especially the couplet in the [...]

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Upon Predictions of a One Inch Snowfall for St. Louis, Missouri – Two Haiku

this snow like a flirt comes in smiling, kissing her hellos; then she’s gone __________ in the clearing the snow falls gently down, down; the rabbit’s twitching nose Related haiku here and here.

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