Haiku:

雪花が舞う

(Sekka ga mau) – Snowflakes dance

さやかな光昇る

(Sayaka na hikari noboru) – Gentle light rises

神社。

(Jinja) – A shrine

Poem:

A bell does not ring.

Still, its silence lingers

in the snowfall.

He stands

one with the cold,

the wooden pillars,

the breathless sky.

Each flake,

a prayer

never spoken,

never lost.