“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow.” – Roman Payne thin layer of ice overlays season of warmth frailty of comfort * * * Quiet brook ices over with thin layer of gloss • Photo by Terry Logozzo • “Thin Ice” haiku by Mary O’Connor © 2025
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” — George R. R. Martin stripped clean of treasured golden autumn leaves, branches bow to bully winds * * * As the moods of seasons change, so nature adapts • Tennessee artist Gloria McRoberts depicts the seasonal transformation … More Windswept
“Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms, all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye.…” — Octavio Paz viewed in shapes and forms perceptions appear and fade fragmentary world * * * Light and shadows alter the day’s image of surrounding world and life • Photo by Terry Logozzo … More Shapes and Forms
“Winter sunlight is a warm old soul, spreading love in the bitter cold.” — Angie Weiland-Crosby deserted shore scenes castles of sand wiped away sunshine a cold light * * * Sunbathers gone, warm sands of beach reduced to footprints • “Winter Light” haiku and photo by Mary O’Connor © 2025
“After the night, the morning, bidding all darkness cease, after life’s cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace.” — Helen Steiner Rice stillness and quiet spin-offs of evening’s light undeniably healing * * * Quiet beauty of great white stepping through the marsh intensified in golden light • Photo and “Stillness” haiku by … More Stillness
“The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.” — Maria Cristina Mena nature’s own music piano key butterfly melody of wings * * * The Piano Key Butterfly is named for its distinctive black and white wing markings, resembling the keys of a piano. A Central … More Piano Keys
“Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide.” — Robert Aris Willmott rising and falling erasing pages of sand tides of renewal * * * Low tide leaves few footprints to be followed • Low Tide photo and “Footprints” haiku by Mary O’Connor © 2025
“Life’s a wheel of fortune and it’s my chance to spin it.” — Tupac Shakur kissed by the sun mesmerizing whorl of gold wheel of good fortune * * * Sunflower spins its wheel of lucky golden petals • Photo by Jan Logozzo • “Good Fortune” haiku by Mary O’Connor © 2025
“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation of all abundance.” — Eckhart Tolle abundance pours out revelation of plenty gifts of the garden * * * Pumpkins and gourds herald the harvest season of autumn • Photo at Smith’s Acres by Jan Logozzo • “Abundance” haiku by Mary O’Connor … More Abundance
“Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams” — Paul Gauguin riot of color red blue gold all competing unspoken language infusing tincture of joy proclamation of delight * * * Pulled in by color, breathtaking is an understatement • Photo by Jan Logozzo • “Captured” tanka* by Mary O’Connor © 2025 … More Captured
Life Is Full of Sweet Spots 