Winter Solstice

Haiku is the curse
of poets writing verses
in Winter solstice:

a mendicant’s
medication, the begging
bowl of Winter’s bringing,

the seasonal owl starved of
mice-thoughts and winged prey
falls from Summer’s grace,

skeletal remains
of once fat contemplation
chancing Winter’s ire,

leavings of the
feasting in plenitude, the
bare bones of Winter’s cheer.
© I.D. Carswell 2007