Haiku Reflections on Winter

Today, I shall try some haiku.

For more information, this site is helpful to adults and this one for kids which gives you this mnemonic for the structure:

I am first with five

Then seven in the middle --

Five again to end.

My efforts (not all respecting the 5, 7, 5 rule):

A grim gray wintery day

Walk the dog?

OK.

Woodpecker peeks

'round leaf-bare birch

seeking frozen suet.

January thaw:

Icicles -- Winter's claws! -- drip

Harmless water now.

Black-capped chickadees

cry, swoop, alight, feed, and flee --

skier's wintry friends

Paw prints in the snow

Careful steps in same imprint - -

Let's guess who was here.

Icy roads slip, slide

past homes warmly yellow-lit

in Evening Blue.

Our gay Christmas tree,

shed of her glory, must wait

boxed until next year.

Making haiku's fun!

Challenge? No rhyme, no meter

Just 5, 7 and 5.