through winter's white hush
half-frozen creek meanders
basking in sunrise
©2026 Kate Wolfe
Featured image is my own watercolor landscape. I painted it about a year ago, and it was my husband’s all-time favorite.
haiku #105
Category Poetry
A Widow’s Sunset
sunset...
December 20th, 2025
three days into widowhood
still seems unreal
I'll go into the house
and he won't be there
just an empty chair
and twenty-five years of memories
some bad...more good
with a man who was hard to live with
but who loved me beyond measure
even when I didn't deserve it
how I wish he could have seen
this beautiful sunset
on his life
and who knows
maybe he was standing there
close beside me
no longer locked
in a dying body
chained to misery
at long last
soaring free
©2026 Kate Wolfe
Featured image my own photo taken at sunset three days following my husband’s death.
tanka #33
sun rises golden
pink, blue, and, periwinkle
lone pine tree looks down
on lesser neighbors’ cast-offs—
high-and-mighty green
©2026 Kate Wolfe
Featured image is my own photo taken of sunrise in my backyard.
hainka #5
north wind caterwauls
chilling late October morn
pampas grass shivers
fall settling in
on a heart that’s winding down
north wind caterwauls
turning blood to sluggish ice
death looms over horizon
©2026 Kate Wolfe
Featured image is my own manipulated photo.
