Haikai Challenge #177: Still Cold (yokan)/New Year (Shinnen) — Lost in the Blizzard

#Haiku Happenings #1 (2/18/21): Jade Li’s latest #tanka for my current #Haikai Challenge!

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Lost in the blizzard,
my boots crunch an unknown path –
still, I hear music.
Their hearth blazes; plum wine flows.
Sun rises pink on snowdrifts.

 

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Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge.  Frank says:
This week, let’s write our favorite haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.) alluding to either:
•Still Cold (yokan)/New Year (Shinnen)
•Mardi Gras/Ash Wednesday

 

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