Silver Birch

Silver birch leaves, Redland, Bristol, December 2025

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Leaf fall random form

silver-laced serrated edge

autumn’s winter creep

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by Scooj

Precious

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Diamond encrusted

grass tips, fallen leaves glisten

day melts the moment

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by Scooj

Comical

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On a frosted bank

a seagull is worm charming

webbed feet marking time

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by Scooj

Silver

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Thick frosted pastures

shimmer under pink-tinged clouds

this is my treasure

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by Scooj

To ‘The Old Smoke’

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A silver blanket

settles on Somerset fields

and contrails criss-cross

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by Scooj

Frost

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Accumulation

of perfect cuboid crystals

Freezing point drama

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by Scooj

Ice

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A perfect circle

skimmed from a gardening trugg

smashed to smithereens

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by Scooj

Below zero

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A proper winter

just how I remember it

frosty cold and dry

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by Scooj

Arrival

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Autum’s crisp discards

laced with sugar frosting dust

winter has arrived

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by Scooj

Haiku 3

 

Deathly cold darkness

adorns Autumn’s fallen leaves

with Winter’s halo

 

by Scooj

(originally posted in March 2015)

With huge apologies to those who have been with me on this journey for a while, this is the third time I have posted Haiku 3 but I haven’t yet been able to better it, and it speaks to me each year at this time.