A trilogy of Winter Poems

1) Welcome to fucking winter.
Fuck!!!

2) The incessant falling snow.
The long, long drive home.
Fuck!
(true story)

3) Today’s forecast:
It will be very cold.
Have a nice day!


- John Bauman

low winter sun strikes
Catalinas tops glow red
saguaro desert


-Marsden P. Griswold

Introducing: Marsden P Griswold

Marsden, also known as Denny, or Jeremiah's dad to me for much of my childhood. I haven't seen him in a while, but have had some contact through Facebook lately. What I remember about him is childhood things like him picking up Jeremiah from my house, or being at school picnics and so forth. He always seemed knowledgable and intelligent to me.

I didn't know that Denny took photos or wrote Haiku, but now I do.

Hero

I’m a hero in my own story,
A legend in my own mind,
A God in my own Universe,
An overgrown kid drinking cold coffee
And watching television


- Dimitri Oram

Oh, those Chapter Twenty lines!

Oh, those Chapter Twenty lines!
Those ancient Lao Tzu syllables!
For I
Other people have ambition and desire.
My only desire is to never be tortured by desire!
Other folk find value in industry and imagination.
I just want to sit and watch,
A small roof,
A little garden, the postman,
And much time.
Why am I so persecuted?
No other heeds the mysteries,
They only hear the voices of their
Dearly dead ancestors saying
"You must!"
"If you don't it will be a waste of your life!!"
But True Nature never allows waste.
Even the rotten and the damned,
Nourish the groundswell of honest love.
Even waste is not waste.
Waste is the birthplace of the ten thousand things
And everybody hates it.
This is a problem.
We are all trying to grow flowers
On the dry slab of ambition.


-Jeremiah Griswold

Perfect and Magical

"I took these pictures today, while it was snowing and the sun was trying to peek through the clouds. It was so beautiful! I love when it snows like that, each snow flake is so perfect and magical." [12/23/2008]

- Selena Dittberner