“Newly given,
The year begins,
Life returns,
Snow falls, a blessing—
May all good be ours!”
~ Ōtomo Yakamochi
🎍Written for Sadje’s first WDYS Prompt of 2025 🎍
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For the visually challenged reader, this image shows a young woman, dressed warmly, standing on a snow-clad elevated piece of land, looking skyward. The sun is shining brightly and she looks ready to venture out with a bag on her shoulder.
⛄️ ❄️ ⛄️ ❄️
the morning after
pure white snow weighs the branches
my mind is made up
。
low and soft, your voice
like a mountain stream’s whisper
stealthily I climb
。
light snow falls softly
where my love rests evermore
let him not be cold
Copyright ©️ selmamartin 2025
Also, taking advantage to the lucky fete that the PoW of this week’s W3 prompt.
Find the prompt poem by Suzanne Brace here: ‘An Ode to Yesterday’
Suzanne asks for any form of Japanese poetry, I offer my haiku to the prompt of Yutori where I allude to the concept in the words I employed and hope the meaning comes through.
Using the concept of Yutori as finding balance in the spaciousness of choice on the heavily snow filled day that the photo prompted me to consider. I hope you enjoy this first draft.
Thanks so much for reading. >May all good be ours!<
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Wow, I’m mesmerized by the serene beauty of these poems! The way you’ve woven together the tranquillity of nature, the gentle snowfall, and the profound concept of Yutori is truly captivating.
As a fellow poet (and an almost 14-year-old one at that!), I’m inspired by your work and grateful for the opportunity to read it. Your poetry has a peaceful quality to it that’s perfect for the winter season.
I’d love to hear more about your writing process and what inspires you to create such beautiful poetry. Do you have any tips or advice for a young poet like myself?
This is a beautiful set of poems, Selma! That last one really touched my heart strings. Well done!
Yvette M Calleiro 🙂
http://yvettemcalleiro.blogspot.com
All three poems are lovely, but that last one moved me. I’ve read them a few times now, they are so worth spending time with.
oh, sad about the one left below the snow forever more
Love all three poems.
I felt the last one deeply.
Beautiful poems Selma. Like some of the other comments, the last one resonates, especially here in Canada where we have snow every winter. Maggie
Beautiful Selma! I did enjoy these. I can feel the space given to mind and body in these, room to move on and then so touchingly to let go in the last one…. ‘let him not be cold’ heart aching …
💞Suzanne
Selma, such beautiful poems.
A lovely poem.
Perfect, Selma!
I especially like that first haiku. (K)
Wow, just wow Selma, you made it look so easy to write haiku with so much elegance .❤️