As you can see, the snow is gone. I know I said I wasn’t going to publish all my word pictures here, but I wanted to show the result without the snow, and then I did some playing indoors.
New Poem
The dVerse Poets Pub is open after a two week vacation and today Lisa invites us to write a “celebration” haibun. I haven’t written a haibun in a while, so I think I’ll give it a try.
Celebrating Release from a Beautiful Imprisonment
I saw large, white flakes fall during my white-knuckle drive home through thick rain and sporadic drivers with speeds from infrared to ultraviolet.
Ten days it snowed since we opened presents, and ate Mother’s delicious strawberry cake, everyone generous and grateful. I remained sustained.
Overnight snowmelt
frees me from joyous ice jail
I return with treats
And this image of the Mirrorworld fits with Of Maria Antonia’s 2022 Weekly Photo Challenge prompt “Chill,” I think.
Experience Writing 
A suitable celebration….
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Beautifully concocted. I love your “picture poems” and your haiku came together delightfully.
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Thank you.
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How I love the term ‘joyous ice jail’! And your photography adds extra interest, as ever 🙂
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Thank you.
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I’m glad you made it safely to where you were going in the snow. Strawberry cake sounds yummy! We just had our first snowfall of winter.
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Lovely! An ice-jail sounds like a cold hell!
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Especially when the seals on the windows are broken and the ice is painting inside the panes of glass.
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I’ve had that once when I was a student, and a couple of years when we were in a rented apartment in the north east. It never gets cold enough down here, and I’m not complaining!
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,joyous ice jail’ — great phrase!
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This is such a fun phrase, Maria! 😀
❤
David
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Thank you.
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An interesting Haibun. Snow can be a lovely prison for a short while. Not so much fun to drive in.
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A very nice haibun, and I especially love the haiku. “Ice jail” sounds quite hectic and as much as I wish for snow, I’m glad in some ways that we don’t get it. Also love the pictures!
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Thank you.
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Glad you can relax a little after all of that snow, Maria. Strawberry cake sounds so tasty. Your red image looks like a strawberry cake to me. Yum!
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