Chèvrefeuille is the host of Mindlovemiserys Menageries’s Heeding Haiku with, who says:
Welcome at a new episode of Heeding Haiku With … MLMM’s feature about haiku and haibun, two wonderful kinds of Japanese poetry. A while ago I decided to give you only a theme for this feature and maybe some rules to use. This week I love to challenge you to create a classical haiku or a classical haibun themed “New Beginnings”.When you have written your haiku, please TAG Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille and Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. Then add your link to the Mister Linky widget (at the site.)
Spring’s green polka dots
from a distance, close up show
tiny strawberry leaves.
Spring lichen carpets
a limb, yellow and white rest
on their way to dust.
Tao Talk 
I love these. Haiku is such a suitable format for everyone don’t you think?….even the most attention deficit peeps among us can get through haiku without checking facebook! Perhaps THE gateway drug to poetry
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lmao. Do you write haiku? I’d like to see it if you do. If you don’t, come on and try it. Your first haiku is free :)
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Nah…never really been into the idea. But why not! I’ll let you know if I start for sure
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:) chicken!
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I’ll get to it! I’ve got so many little projects already lol
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haiku are my favorite types of poems and i really enjoyed reading yours……….
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Like that wild strawberry… Had to get the mower out this week. I read though that ‘Bomb cyclone’ storm hammers central US. Up to 2 1/2 feet expected in South Dakota with winds in excess of 50 mph.
Your photos are lovely. The haiku just an added bonus. :)
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oh no on the storm :( Glad you liked the pictures.
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I’m glad I mowed this morning – afternoon showers…
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That’s 2 1/2 feet of snow…
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I pray it doesn’t blow east.
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I could do with a little less record setting stats! Weather wise. :)
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Nice contrast between the yellow and white lichen.
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I never saw two identical species of lichen with two such different shades before. They are lovely!
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I do love the lichen… life in such a resilient way
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I see lichen as the last stop before dust. There is a place way north of here, in the Upper Peninsula, called Copper Harbor, on Lake Superior, where a section of beach has large rocks that are covered with a lovely variety of lichen. I’ve only been there once, but I never forgot it.
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A double treat–photos and haiku. I was reticent to accept haiku a few years ago, but nowadays I end most of my poems with one. On the trail tonight I ran into a poem of six haiku with free verse responses; intriguing form.
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Thanks Glenn. I like to write them, but they do seem like more of a supplement or addendum in my book. I don’t like to write one by itself, they get self-conscious that way. Intriguing is right about the 6 haiku with free verse responses. I saw it and thought it meshed seamlessly.
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Great description – I enjoy Haiku, and strawberry plants. :-)
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It is a winning combination isn’t it? ;) With two-toned lichen chaser.
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These are such gems.. I am literally swooning right now! 😍😍
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Thanks Sanaa. Glad you liked them :)
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” ..on their way to dust ” I never thought of lichen in that way, but it’s “spot on”, as the Brits say.
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Thank you Beverly. As are we all ;)
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Loved that haiku. Yep.
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:) Thank you
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I love that yellow! (K)
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Your photos and haiku work so well together!
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Thanks Dwight! It was one of the few days bright enough to take pictures. It’s been gloomy ever since :(
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I enjoyed the simplicity with the fun pics. A fine Spring feel
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Thank you, Sabio. It was a simple fine Spring day when I took the pics and wrote the haiku based on them :)
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short but sweet snapshots of our earth undressing for spring!
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Nice way of putting it. Thank you :)
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I like the idea of strawberry plants polka-dotting! Jam season cannot come too soon.
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So much packed into this Haiku Jade. An entire cycle of life to death. Loved it! The photos you post, as always, are captivating.
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Rob, very happy you enjoyed the photos and the haiku. Thank you for your kind comments.
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Little bits of spring. Lovely photos and words.
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Thank you, Merril :)
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