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Lady Winter's 1st Snow

Lady Winter’s First Snow

As heavy lids and lashes part
White hair a blanket 'cross her heart

She's so far down, she lies so deep
Dark is her passage up from sleep

Black feathered wings; they gather round
Her leaden limbs to be unbound

She'll stretch; she'll gather cloud and crow
Embrass the essence of first snow

In gown stark white and blue and gray
She'll spread herself across the day

Her hair will mantle out the sun
And craft a loom where cold is spun

The frozen wind her gift to share
She’ll whisper frost into the air

So soft at first this cold, cold, song
That lulls to sleep the still-green ground

Then lullaby t

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Submitted: August 15, 2008
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Haiku Springby =NTGreen

Digital Art / Photomanipulation / Emotional

NOTE: Print does not have Watermark

This is my entry for the "Mystery of the Far East" by lucretia-stock and alegion-stock

A Detailed Close-up of her Face and an Animated GIF of the image creation progress is HERE

The stock image had such an emotional quality I wanted my image to portrayed that ...the Geisha's whole stance captured a feeling of release and joy.

I also wanted to incorporate a Haiku feeling; simple with subtle depths. The title is derived from the Haiku I wrote for the image (see below). It is almost too cliche but I couldn't resist

I had a lot of trouble with the hair ... I tried to do a traditional Geisha Wig and then have it look windblown ... not as easy as I thought it would be! The make-up is less traditional than I originally had planned ...just did not work with the emotion in the piece so it is modified and I hope the Traditionalist out there will forgive me.

Last but not least I wrote a Haiku (my very first and with help from A word about haiku - by Michael James plus I noted him and he was kind enough to respond and it helped a lot. Any errors in the style and format of the poem are all mine ...and the title is not for the Haiku but the image as I don't believe you are suppose to give Haiku a title!

Spring wind moves
Winter clouds
Soon the dragonflies!

The wonderful images that inspired this piece are from

The Geisha: lucretia-stock

The Sea/Land Scape: alegion-stock

The Sky is altered from an image of my own over an extension of the original Alegion image to create a "raincloud" look. The Hairpiece is created from her dress and drawn in PS

View all contest entries here: [link])

Please, absolutely no reproduction, copying or duplication of this image, in part or in whole, without my permission and written consent! My images are not Free Domain!