Humble Nature even smiles as adornments fall like rain — the heart still remains.

Source Clouds and stream engaged in an unbroken cycle — blessing realms with life

Resolve If it takes a month or a thousand lifetimes, I vow to conquer this.

Relentless If I could stop time to hammer out these pages, I’d have this game licked.

Improvise Finding the pathway from idea to the dream takes a lot of guts.

Quell Past a stormy sea, nothing-seems-right-to-me day — may today stand calm.

Irony Wish for sleep, for peace, for eventual release — pray for a long life.

Persistent Burn the midnight light — try to find seventeen sounds that justify it.

Oath You’d best keep the pledge, to return to life in Spring — else the break will show.

This year’s Winter Solstice is December 21st, 2013.