cold winter rain
the swollen creek also
rushing home

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Annette Makino

Annette Makino is a poet and artist who writes haiku and senryu and illustrates her poems with Japanese ink paintings. Her pieces, comprising a few words and brushstrokes, convey a quiet Zen perspective and gentle sense of humor. There is a gallery of her work at www.makinostudios.com.

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  1. Excellent!

    Mine is the opposite of your's but I was indoors, inside a warm hotel room, enjoying a torrential cold winter rainstorm.

    bouncing rain
    I force the hotel window
    a little wider

    Alan Summers
    Blithe Spirit March 2012; Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

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  2. There is something almost jovial to the feeling of this… in that there is a home to run to. Also the beautiful contrast of cold running to warm (home)… and the oneness of the creek with the one also running… you, human, animal… I love the openness and rushing feeling of it all.

  3. Very beautiful. It made me think of the Wissahickon Creek, in Phila., where I grew up (Edgar Allen Poe mentions this area in one or two stories).

    covered bridge
    the river's chill seeping
    from underneath

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