Ron's Poem

The Wonder of Winter

I love Winter
cold air breath
skin braced alive
white snow beauty
trees outlined
over blue sky
smoking chimneys
iced flowing river
metallic water lake
birds and animals
snug in their nests
all anticipating
the warming sun
all of us in awe
of nature.

Ron Kuykendall

Jan's Poem

SUNRISE

The day is just beginning
all soft and gray
my breath fogs the air
the ground is hard
the grass crunches beneath my feet
the clouds hang low
pulled like cotton candy
across the sky
then I see it
pearly pink and orange
just tipping the horizon
beginning to spread
a watercolor sky at first
then golden shafts
spread like honey
as the sun peeps over horizon
painting the east in glorious hues
then climbing higher
it sets the sky ablaze
in a riot of radiant color

Janice Kuykendall