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Jonathan Jun 29
Long shadows sandwiched between a biting breeze and a not quite wet damp black tarmac.

The end of colour intense time, echoing summer and spring's past,
pulling eyes to the grey mute hues of sky and tree.
A subdued stating of its intent to last.

Year-end approaches, celebration looms, competing the grey with a triumph that brings change towards gentler tones.
And a lightness,
seemingly lost in the yearly cycle.

The scent of spring once hidden beneath the diminishing decay of autumn and winter's contribution brings a bright hope forecasting a weathered change.

The beat of the yearly cycle quickens adding strength and tempo to my own hearts quickening with a prospect of longer days.
B Jun 25
You are
so right that it feels wrong
like citrus fruit in January
you are my siren song
sour becomes something sweet
when you linger on it for too long.
Breathing in cold air,
Admiring the white ground,
I count every step.
Each step is a reminder,
if who we were last winter.
Artur Jun 22
The shortest day throughout the year
Should leave us with but little cheer
Yet as the day turns into night
A hope lies with its dimming light

A hope unbroke through eons past
Tho doubt it often would amass
In hearts and spirits of long last
Ancestors who witnessed it's glow

For they, who didn't truly know
The secrets of the star that hides
That, as the light that shines in thee
The sun lives on, eternally

No longer will the Gods arise
For what's eternal never dies
We leave behind all fear and fright
In that long, cold, dark winter's night

And all that's left for use to do
Is wait for day, to break on through
And turn our faces to the sun
Knowing one day we'll all be one
Over the snowy mountain peaks
A star is gliding through space
As I’m strolling, embracing the breeze
On Saint Anne’s frozen lake.

Icicles have crept up on the trees
All the living have run away
Sorrow lingers in the silent eve’
Dimming prayers at Winter’s gate.

The cold flurry of air penetrates the bone
Reeds wince with the chill.
A flock of birds pass by like ghosts,
their shapes trembling in fear.

Oscillating wings carve the way
as they fade away in the sky,
a new thought is born I can’t shake:
This is my home. I’ve arrived.
'Erdélyi pillanatkép' translation
June, 2024
summer? i love summer.

summer for me, is not the scorching heat,
it's the light that makes things shine.

it's the time when my inner gloominess is overshadowed by summer's joy,

and the time when the stoic leaves start to giggle because of summer's charm.

not even the dark nights of summer will leave you feeling lonely,

because its loo envelops you in its warmth.

but writing this when just yesterday I was about to faint from the heat of summer, feels symbolic.

like the light of summer hypnotizes you into believing everything's going to be alright,

but hold that thought too long, and you risk losing sight.

and maybe that's why summer ends, to make way for winter.

which leads me to the conclusion that I love summer, because winter exists.

that is nature's way, it's beauty is in its harmony.

and that is why I love winters, as much as I love summers.
this was messy; a journal entry turned poem. people looking for structure might not like it, but these are my thoughts, and I feel people's simple thoughts in itself are poetry.
Maria Jun 7
Will you remember her?
She was so fun after all!
She laughed by eyes, laughed softly.
She was so light and airly at all.
Will you remember her?

Will you remember her?
She so loved all sunsets,
Loved stars and caught their light!
She ran away in her sleeps some place.
Will you remember her?

Will you remember her?
She so adored winter laugh,
Snowdrifts to be higher, the snow to be white
And bitterlly cold and not in half.
Will you remember her?

You will remember her!
She so loved to love!
She gave of herself wholeheartedly!
She couldn’t live without love!
You will remember her!
Love is often so simple, so light, so airy, so pure, so real. But we just don't see it. But then, when we remember, it all comes back in our memory...
Thank you very much for reading this poem! 💖
Ebbing and flowing in
winter months,
buried soft in
snow and cold.
Painted skin and eyes
so they
pulse in
deep red.
Painted hair and nails,
green.
Glowing.
Sharpen the
edge of arms and
fingers to
points and prickles of
festive delight,
mix with crowds alike,
Make whole
and make useless
and make
holly.
Zywa May 31
A cold winter moon

high above the rolling snow --


My heart starts pounding.
Composition "Moon Viewing Music" (2018, Peter Garland), for three gongs, part 1 "Living alone in the woods / few visitors cast shadows / How clean the moon / gleaming in the sky" (haiku by Ryokan Taigu, 1758-1831), performed in the Organpark on four gongs by Pepe Garcia on February 8th, 2025

Collection "org anp ARK" #85
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