A star made in imitation
Of an ancient sign
Journeys begun unexpectedly
After long waiting
What gifts will we bring?
- Copyright Kay Winter
December Omen – Star
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Poems
November Omen – Early Moon
Up early enough
For the morning moon
Branches bare
We have come
An impossible distance
Copyright Kay Winter
October Omen – Snow Shadow
Shadows and landscape edges
The troll face of trickery and treats
The year about to get lost
Crossing into dark woods
Passage, shadow, mystery, magic
Copyright Kay Winter
September Omen – Green Path
The sky opens behind the path of the year
Waiting for me to cross or follow
Change, chance, opportunity
Green going and snow coming.
- Copyright Kay Winter
August Omen – Footprints
We’ll leave things behind us
The spaces where we were
In summer
the lake water folding over our shoulders
Summer rain running off our fingertips into the earth.
A footprint in the August sand
like the goose in snow.
Copyright Kay Winter
July Omen – Path and Bramble
A clearer path through
Tree and bramble
Bare (waiting)
under the same sun as summer.
- Copyright Kay Winter
June Omen – Tangle Days
A road (sunlight, leaves) visible
Through a tangle
Of days ending
- Copyright Kay Winter
May Omen – Snowprints
My steps
Or another’s?
Were we coming or going?
Snow shadows
And the heady scent
Of evening lilacs.
- Copyright Kay Winter
April Omen – Summer Remnants
Summer remnants
And small seeds of patience
Waiting for the spring wind
To let go.
- Copyright Kay Winter
