Time for some strict syllabic poetry this morning. A cinquain sequence for Colleen’s challenge. Our first real frost and the last for a while I hope, is disappearing in a beautiful cloudless morning.
Photo©hedera.baltica
White the
winter meadow
furred stiff with frosted cold
that fell with the starlight in night’s
dark time.
Bright the
sun in cloudless
sky, sharp as ice shards, blue
as the powdered wings of blue tits
feasting.
Night cold,
fading faster
than melting ice, frost-fur
bathed in golden light where birds flit,
squabbling.
Jane Dougherty Writes 
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MAGIC WORDS JANE, CHINA
Thank you, China!
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Beautiful, Jane … this has a gentle melodic feel to it, capturing the essence of frosty days and nights! 😀
Thank you! When it’s not a deep frost and when you know it’s only going to be for one night, and when it’s followed by glorious mild sunshine, I can take it 🙂
Hmm … that’s a lof of ‘whens’ but I know exactly what you mean! 😀It’s currently that glorious mild sunshine outside so might well head out for a relaxing refreshing walk!
That’s exactly what I plan to do too 🙂
You words paint such a vivid picture. I’m happy for you that the frost shared its beauty–and them melted away in the sunshine! 🙂 We ended up not getting any snow yesterday (though daughter in Mass. got a lot–two rounds), but we’re going to have a cold wind gusts today.
It’s beautiful now and warmish outdoors. There was a casualty over lunch though, a blue tit crashed into the glass of the veranda after an insect and broke its neck 😦
Oh no! 😦
They swarm around so thick and fast there’s always one that misjudges the distance and slams into the glass.
That’s so sad–and maybe a bit scary for you when it happens.
They’re so tiny the impact isn’t that loud, but it’s sad. They’re perfect, not a feather out of place and so bright.
Wow! You built a poem describing a “icy heaven”. 😉 This birds you used an image from i know. Last autumn one of them discovered our house. Maybe a asylum seeker. After we saw another, she/ he very slowly wandered out of the just opened door. Was a really amazing experience. 😉 Michael
It’s a blaumeise just looked it up
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaumeise
They come very close to the house and flit around under the porch where some of the firewood is piled, after the insects in the wooden beams and shutters. Every so often one of them flies into the glass and breaks its neck 😦 Are they not very common in your part of the world?
Oh its the same name as in German? They are very intelligent. We thought we should give her asylum, but what would be happend over winter? In spring maybe we would have a colony of them in the house.
Ha ha no, I looked up the name in German. In English it’s blue tit. They are called titmice too so yes, same name.
OK Lol Yes, the addition “*mice” seems to be very true.
They are very quick and very small 🙂
Indeed, i saw outdoors. The one we had indoor, did a very slow walk.
He/she wasn’t intimidated by you. The other day there was one sitting on a chair in the porch, just looked at me as I went past. Was still there when I came back. I felt like excusing myself for disturbing 🙂
Lol
I don’t think they’d nest indoors, don’t worry 🙂
We will see. A little bit smell of our guest cat, and in spring the will get out very soon. 😉 Dont worry, we do not let the cat catching birds, but a short walking through is possible.
Such a magnificent moment! Love it. ❤
Thank you! First thing I do, even before a cup of coffee is make sure the birds have something to eat.
You’re the best! 🥰
They’re hard to keep up with. It’s a regular swarm of little birds that descends on the food.
So sweet. I’m still feeding my hummingbirds.
Keep up the good work 🙂
The birds warm the day. (K)
I don’t know where they get their energy.
Birds and sunshine and the world seems reasonable.
Beautiful 💜
🙂