Ohio Winter (Five Haiku)

Look! Casualties
Strewn about the autumn ground:
The leaves have fallen.



Bony clawed-hand trees
With blood-red berries beading
Like perspiration.



Valiant pine trees
Displaying lush summer green
On dead winter days.



Bone-cracking cold and
Flesh-shredding wind now torture
The smallest sparrow.



As our breath escapes--
A ghost in cold night air--it
Floats towards heaven.

• On Thursday, November 1, 2007, Mab (1193) wrote:
  
  these haiku are beautiful in their entirety as a single poem...the second one is my favorite.love it.
  
  
• On Friday, December 2, 2005, DarkPoet (258) wrote:
  
  I'm laughing from the start. Very good.
  
  
• On Friday, December 2, 2005, Circe (611) wrote:
  
  You've really made exquisite imagery from a simple poetic form, the impact knocks away my breath.
  
  
• On Friday, December 2, 2005, Bakkhus Unbound (1055) wrote:
  
  "Flesh-shredding wind now tortures" I like the shivering feelings portrayed: from the fallen leaves to the 'bone-cracking cold', how our breath escapes like ghosts. Inspiring modes of Japanese poetry; well done.
  
  
• On Friday, December 2, 2005, blue (1604) wrote:
  
  =) That was one damn fine collection of haiku!! ...and they all blended so perfectly together. Yay! for smiles. ~b