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