It’s Poetry Friday!
Winter has definitely set in here in the northeast. Cold, a bit of snow, the sun making brief appearances. It’s the season of candlelight and finding peace in the night sky lit by a full moon.
I’m making my way through Leaf, Cloud, Crow, the companion journal to The Comfort of Crows, both by Margaret Renkl. I followed the suggestion to walk outside every night for a week, just before bed, and look at the sky. The two small poems I offer today feel like companion pieces – one written from my late-night observations and one an early morning surprise.
Garden in December
full moon glowing
blesses the sleeping garden
with sweet dreams of spring
Draft, 2025Rose Cappelli
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Surprise
December morning
driveway dons a dusting
snowflakes dance
Draft, 2025RoseCappelli
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Linda has the round up today at A Word Edgewise where she offers a wonderful poetic mashup. Be sure to stop by and check the comments for lots of poetry goodness.
Imagine the Possibilities 
Rose, I loved A Comfort of Crows and want to read it all over again. I didn’t know there was a companion journal. Your haiku are beautiful. I especially love the alliteration in the second one.
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Thanks, Margaret. It’s been great revisiting The Comfort of Crows and responding in the journal week by week. Some weeks I didn’t respond so I will probably do it again next year.
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Rose, you have inspired me to read both of these books by Margaret Renkl. Your “Garden in December” haiku was amazing, especially loved that “blesses the sleeping garden” line and your “Surprise” haiku really was a surprise, with those snowflakes dancing! The warmth of Poetry Friday is rhe perfect antidote for these dark days. Thank you, Rose!!!
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Thanks, Mona! I think you will enjoy Margaret Renkl’s works. You can follow along week by week throughout the year.
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Oh I do love this conversation… a sort of wink from the moon that winter is not yet ready to cede its season. ☺️
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Thanks, Patricia!
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I also loved The Comfort of Crows, Rose, so thanks for sharing that there’s a companion journal – sounds wonderful for the new year! I love your idea of the full moon blessing the garden. When I go out at night, I imagine all that is waiting, waiting, for quite a while right now! And the snowflakes dancing on your driveway, a winter sight for sure! Thanks for every bit!
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oooooooh, how pretty…a sleeping garden beneath the moonlight and a snow dusted driveway. Both, great images. I’m intrigued by the journal. I’ve heard good things about the comfort of crows. I got it as an audiobook and I’m not in love with the reader. So, I want to get the physical book and read through it. I hope you are enjoying some seasonal festivities.
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I think The Comfort of Crows is best read in small doses, week by week, as it is mapped out. I found that I could relate better to what I was noticing in my own back yard that way.
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Rose, I love The Comfort of Crows. Your haikus are magical.
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Rose, these are lovely. I appreciate the mentions of Margaret Renkl’s books, too. I hope our library has them.
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If you follow her on IG, she offers free links to the essays she writes for the NYT. (Or if you subscribe to NYT, you can find them yourself!)
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What a lovely pair of haiku that chronicle a lovely pair of moments! I’m another fellow Margaret Renkl fan.
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Where have I been? I hadn’t heard of The Comfort of Crows, so thanks for mentioning it along with its accompanying journal. What lovely haiku inspired by those walks!! The cold weather has definitely arrived sooner this year, cutting Fall short — not too happy about that.
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I think you will like Margaret Renkl’s work, Jama.
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Both beautiful haiku, Rose. Renkl has a great suggestion to go outside and look before bed – we live where light polluntion does not exist. I must look into these books and her work. Thank you.
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What a wonderful suggestion — what we see/hear/feel at night is of a different flavor than what a daytime walk reveals to us. I love the image of the glowing full moon blessing the garden. Such a peaceful image!
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Hi dear Rose! I don’t know The Comfort of Crows & want to add it to my Look-Forwards. I feel peace with this poems. Appreciations!
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these … these poems 🙂
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Thanks, Jan.
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