Haze screens distant hills
evergreen out vista high
as pale dawn rises.
Pearl white petal crown
tipped gold shower life confirms
brief affirmation.
Dawn silhouette bay
haze masking surf lines seaward
gold sun trail blinds us.
Seven bright brown eyes
your smile in sunshine flowers
why then do you hide?
Ghost mist’s river edge
sentinel evergreens stand
our night’s cold divide.
Three peaked snow creamed heights
below melt and meadow green
sky cold lake water.
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Dr. Wilson F. Engel, III, who resides in Ohio, is a Distinguished Member of the International Society of Poets in the UK and a Best American Poet for the last twenty years. A member of Master Bards, his poems have won a Second Place (2024), a Third Place (2023), a Fifth Place (2014) and several Honorable Mentions (2018-2022) in international amateur poetry competitions. He was winner of numerous haiku contests sponsored by poetry.com. In 2006 he was awarded medal for his lifetime service to poetry education.
