Silent Winter

4 Tanka for the Prompt: Differences

Photo by Andre Benz on Unsplash

summer heat recedes.
autumn shows up sweet and spiced,
turmeric, mustard,
cayenne, curry, cinnamon,
the leaves' color, fall to earth.

leafless trees reach up
toward cold blue winter skies.
flakes of white float down
to a cold dark, barren earth,
soften edges of our world.

earth sleeps silently,
as birds migrate, bugs slumber,
hibernate, waiting,
patiently resting throughout
the cold winter months of snow.

we wait out the cold,
wait for the warmth of springtime
to explode with life,
to burst into living hues,
and noisy nights of summer.

~~ Rhonda Marrone 11/2021

Thanks to Tracy Aston for this prompt:

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