Mind Loves Misery Menagerie has asked that we write haiku on the first day of spring. Hopefully more than one is ok. Calendar: says Spring Ground: still frozen with heaped snow Winter: your time’s done. * March’s beginning, daffodils are still sleeping under white blankets. * March’s twenty first, daffodils and crocus push…
Category: haiku
#MLMM — haiku: first snow
http://gph.is/1hk0w3e Chevrefeuille’s prompt at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie is first snow, where it may be a haiku or haibun. I chose haiku. Pinpricking iced flakes tap skin – and everything else; some melts, some doesn’t.
Sunday morning haiku
image link Getting ready to build the morning fire, I stood up from the wood burner and looked outside. I saw a brown lump out by one of the fenceposts that isn’t usually there. When you spend a lot of time staring at a particular place, you immediately notice if something is different. I walked…
Alphabet haiku challenge — z
Abigail Gronway’s Alphabet Haiku challenge is using the letter “z”. Challenging, to say the least! Zaftig zinnias, Zimbabwean zygomorphs, zealous zig-zaggers. image link
tender goes the night
Earthrise, taken by astronaut, William Anders, on 12/24/68 Tender goes the night stealing like black velvet along the globe’s curves.
Alphabet haiku — letter V
vervet image link vole image link Velveteen vervets, vexed vagabonds, verily vanquish villain vole. Alphabet Haiku Challenge — letter V
simply squirrely
taken 11/17/18 rough squirrels nest caught late fall’s intricate white web imprisoned safety They come down from the trees to gather winter stores, but much of the time they are curled in their cozily constructed leaf nests. The variety who lives in this nest are the lesser-known Green Squirrels, originally brought from Ireland as honorary…
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