Tag: Spring

105 Days And Counting

April 19, 2022…

Topic of Haiku – April Fool’s Day

fresh snow
after I see off
April Fool’s Day

19 days later
snow on the earth
April Fool’s Day

April Fool’s Day
snow accumulating
19 days later

grass buds shooting up—
colder than snow
April Fool’s Day

there are roses
where snow falls
April Fool’s Day

blooming tulips
the sighting of raging flames—
April Fool’s Day

snow falls
it falls rather than
raindrops
April Fool’s Day

April blizzard—
days without
reading or writing Haiku

night snow
on the ground
April Fool’s Day

April snow—
the colors of spring
change suddenly

105 Days And Counting…

April 12, 2022…

Topic of Haiku – Lies

lies and truths
in depth of one day
snow accumulations (1a)

lies and truth
in the depth of one day
accumulated snow (1b)

colorful lies
as many as the number
of spring flowers

autumn deepens
so too
number of the lies

depth of snow
old lies come
in the number of flakes (4a)

depth of snow
all lies come
in the number of flakes (4b)

avalanche —
old lies
suddenly pile ups

deepening winter
their number increases…
old lies (6a)

deepening winter
their number increases…
all lies (6b)

avalanche as many lies as many old lies as new lies

*100 days, possible 105 days until my 42nd birthday. I am trying to see how many new Haiku I can accumulate before the big day. 😉

DISTILLATION

From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer’s story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight
Drawn after you, – you pattern of all those.
Yet seem’d it winter still, and, you away,
As with your shadow I with these did play.

© William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

spring relics found
with the last hint of color
in muddied puddles

haiku #1
Copyright © Dorna Hainds

memories of you
falling away like blossoms
into the spring snow

haiku #2
Copyright © Dorna Hainds

Response to Carpe Diem #1631 A new chapter … leaving the Kumano Kodo