icy snow-melt clings /
to fragile wine-colored leaves – /
not spring, not winter //
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burgundy headdress /
frozen translucent by ice /
clings to his dark head //
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crawling on his gut /
he drags his crown through the ice – /
gargoyle is displeased //
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This piece is written for Bastet’s Pixelventures. The theme is “inspiration”.
Not only has music inspired me this week, the sight of melting snow has inspired me. Perhaps I was too inspired: our 50 degree temps have ducked back into the teens. #$!@!# We had enough warm-ish weather to confuse a few early bulbs, add a bare tinge of green to some patches of grass, and tempt everyone to run around outside and catch colds.
When the snow started to melt, though, I discovered a bumper crop of gargoyles, dragons, and griffins in my flower beds.
Smiley
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This is my newest gargoyle – adopted this week. His name is Wolfgang. Do you think he’ll scare the chipmunks who keep robbing my birdfeeders?
Wolfgang
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On another note, I call all of my critters “gargoyles” but they are actually “grotesques”. A gargoyle is (technically) a decorative downspout.
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Tagged: Bastet's Pixelventures, gargoyle, grotesque, haiku, inspiration, melting snow, spring, WeDrinkInspiration, winter
