Dark and dreary …

Gold cherry

By Rhiannonw

Thu, 22 Jan 2026
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… soggy, foggy
winter days  –
a weary phase:
hurry, scurry
no pausing, gazing
at squelchy decay;
briskly wend our way
to cosy nest –
warmth, light and rest

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Comments

Submitted by Ewan on

 
Multum in parvo. Well done, indeed.

Author Page at the 'Zon
 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you for cherries and pick. I've learnt that latin now. Enjoyed working it out! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Perfect, Rhiannon, all the word sounds and that way you have of making the last line still and comforting somehow

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Di. I know you too have a liking for word-sounds and impact as well as meaning! Rhiannon

 

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Submitted by GlosKat on

I know just what you mean Rhiannon, and you've expressed it so well.

When the days start getting really shorter and darker it's November, but we've got Christmas to look forward to.  Then after that it's the solstice to look forward to (yay!), then New Year, then my birthday (more yay !).  

Then .. nothing. A damp squib, literally.  It's the end of January, wet,dark, chilly, and nothing on the horizon except more of the same. As you put it so eloquently 'a weary phase'.

But it is just a phase, a season, a rest period.  That's nature isn't it, no summer without winter. 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

thank you. But in the end then we are looking forward to spring, and regrowth, just have to be more patient! And there are so often the bright intervals that encourage us in our waiting, crisp and sunny, if cold! In fact I looked realising that my photos were more of such days! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by marandina on

You capture the darker and danker side of the seasons with such skill, Rhiannon.

A picture painted so adriotly.

I think we are all hankering for spring by now. 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you. Hopefully we'll appreciate it the more! Rhiannon