February light

February light
on the trees
easy to imagine
their new growth
in Spring

Carol Purington (1949 – 2020)

Woodslawn Farm is Carol’s family website. There is information about Carol’s new book, Farm Song.

Morning Song Poems for New Parents, Edited by Susan Todd and Carol Purington, was published in 2011 by St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan, in New York.

another year
has passed since
my mother’s passing
I sit and quietly read
a book she would like too

reading old letters
reflections of Christmas lights
on the water

holiness
and humility
Christmas

Christmas night sky
becomes sunrise
tree branches
covered with ice
glisten in the sun

new year
on the horizon
simple lines
of barns and trees
in the fog

morning light
forms part of a cross
on the wood wall
my faith completes
the picture

pink clouds
span the horizon
seagulls take flight
stretching to read
new books

tiny leaves
on trees
no prayer
in my heart
too small for God

no longer
a stranger
the joy of being able
to share long stories
of this area

by grace we try
to keep a promise
finish a project
monarch butterflies
back in Wisconsin

My poems are from a Page at Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin. The page is Morning light – Tanka. (My pages there – my first site – are filed under MENU.)

It is Autumn here in Wisconsin, USA. I like creating posts around themes, as well as following our Midwest seasons.

morning grey . . .
yellow leaf falls
and rests
on a branch
of green

sun on a vase
from my mother’s home
in the room where I write
she often asked,
“Are you writing?”

I wrote and posted this poem yesterday, with a different photo, at my primary site, Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin. And I enjoyed some time at the WordPress.com free photo library.