The North Dakota Winter Haikus Poem by Tovli Simiryan

The river deepens.
Winter solace detaches;
blushing with sunrise.

Shallowness impedes,
crowding inside radiance;
moths dissolve in flight.

G-d inhaling ice;
colder than distant moon-light;
this night of shadow.

Guard our deep secrets,
like darkness hiding in warmth.
the prairie curling,

floating into storm,
blizzards walking toward suns;
white silence—breathing.

River sprays color;
opening gardens like words;
leaf twirls silver air.

Sunrise is prison;
wisdom inside this journey,
last storm; summer birth.

(Minot, ND-1989)