Canoodle

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beauty, catkins, flowers, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, season, spring, trees, weather, wildlife, winter

On seeing signs of Spring

catkins canoodle
on the coolest of grey days
sap readies for Spring

Baked

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baking, cakes, Christmas cake, haiku, poetry, season

First Christmas cake baked
Equinox marks season’s start
Only five to go

that time again!

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fruit, gooseberries, gooseberry, haiku, poetry, season, summer, time

middle of summer
It’s gooseberry time again
don’t want to be picked

 

Ēostre

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Easter, Eostre, goddess, haiku, pagan, season, spring

Sun’s warmth stirs the sap
A time of fertility
Ēostre, spring’s goddess

Cascade

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haiku, poem, season, spring, trees, willow

A flurry of green
Sap through slim golden branches
Cascade of willow

Whispy

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haiku, poem, season, sky, storm, weather

Yesterday, storm raged
This morning’s sky is bright blue
One whispy grey cloud

jostle

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buds, camellias, flowers, haiku, plants, season, spring

crowding the green leaves
camellia buds jostle
soon a burst of red

The Light

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forest, light, poem, poetry, rain, season, weather, winter

The weather is foul.
Between the forest shadow and me
an east wind grinds thin rain
into the flattened grasses.
But the light!
Low grey clouds diffuse
the winter sun’s rays.
All is a luminous blue green clarity.

Howl

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banality, behowl, buttermilk, haiku, howl, moon, philosophy, season, winter

on sight of the rising full moon

This bright, winter night
Behowl the buttermilk moon
Spurn banality

 

 

Comet

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birds, haiku, robin, season, songbirds, winter

Fluffed up cock robin
like a little red comet
Singing his heart out