Time to Change

Most of the Summer Haiku Blog 2008 is up.

I've sent out the invitations.

Click here to begin posting!

From Spring to Summer

Summer time

It’s a lifetime
the learning process,
but it seems evidence
that after Spring
comes Summer

--

Thank you to all of you for this wonderful Spring Haiku.

Jens / Ashi

May morning -

three ants in the lid

of the honey jar

***

matin de mai -

trois fourmis dans le couvercle

du pot de miel

Day in day out

Day in, day out,
it is raining - old birch trees
knitting a green lace


Päivästä toiseen
sataa - koivut kutovat
vihreää pitsiä

afternoon commute
spring rain soothing
my jangles nerves

after shift from hell
pulling out extra weeds
form the garden beds

red-tipped apple blossom -
bee visits the
house of a thousand kisses

Enjoying the sights...

afternoon commute
dogwood blossoms
bounce in the breeze

such joy
cherry blossom swirling:
one rides on a dog's nose

home depot run
chatting with the maples
to see which one is mine

balmy spring evening

a fox startled in the headlights;

coming out of church

cherry blossoms
May wind and butterfly -
writing a haiku ?

***

fleurs de cerisiers
vent de mai et papillon -
écrire un haiku ?

quiet afternoon
landscape planning
for friend's new house

Early Summer Evening

It’s getting late
blue sky and white clouds
Blackbird and I
still sitting out
enjoying the evening

retail therapy

hard month at work
mulling over which new plant
will make it better

Summer Haiku 2008 in a fortnight

About a fortnight to start Summer 2008 Haiku

This haiku site will end on May 12, 2008.

Is there a Haiku Soul who wants to create and administer the Summer Haiku 2008 blog?

Write to me at ashi@kjaersweb.dk

I haven't been written much this Spring, but I have the feeling that Spring Haiku 2008 has been a rather productive for others. I hope that this spirit will continue in a Summer Haiku 2008 blog.

first of May

first of May
in the rose bush
a fresh feeder

text and image © 2008 gerald england

origami class -
sun through the window
unfolds a tulip

May Day
an ominous lump on
the radiograph

afternoon chores
filling some new flower pots
while the dryer runs

mother's hands
buried in the earth -
her cherry tree blossoming

renga party!

I've just finished a nijuin renga workshop for The Poetry School, and submitted it for publication.

For a feel of the atmosphere, on a fine spring day, please visit this weblink:
Area 17:


shorter evening
an overcast sky follows me
into the pub



all my best,

Alan
32 days and counting to the deadline!
The With Words Online Haiku Competition

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morning commute
atop flowering dogwood
half moon rests

Arctic spring

always surprising -
from the African summer
the early swallows

***

aina yllättäen -
Afrikan kesästä
varhaiset pääskyset

Freedom

after car dies
renting one
to go plant shopping

Early trip to the grocery store

dancing to disco music
while 20-something employee
wonders what it is

new pin on chest
love-bugs
still joined

my only vacation this summer -
sipping beer
from Newcastle, UK

first iris unfurls
in the monrning sun

trees dance

in the sunset glow-

spring breeze

in the spring breeze
escorting the blackbird's flight
petals in a flutter

in dawn's silence,
the din of restless thought, shushed
by gardenia scent

watercolour dawn,
pansies that sway in the breeze;
like potted butterflies

memories forsaken
the golden yellow
of this one rose

dawn light
nothing else
in the spider web


***

lumière de l'aube
rien d'autre
dans la toile d'araignée
.

daffodils dead

daffodils dead
dandelions and daisies
take over

© 2008, gerald england

digging garden bed
enjoying the warm soil
through my fingers

a chorus of frogs
beyond the high gate
vastness settles in

11:30 Mass

Lunch at In-Laws

Children playing

in backyard garden

Wife holds my hand

profusion of color

morning commute
rainbow of lillies
swaying in the breeze

Flowers for Alfons (April, 1945)

Along the rivers bank,

Poppies erupt

Staccato, crimson bursts

Seeping slowly

Into the Oder

blossoms opening
and my grateful heart, too —
impossibly wide

(Cross-posted - with photo and story -
at But Wait, There's More!)

theatre bar

drinking
with dodgy characters
from Dostoyevsky

green velvet shoes
and she turns
her ankle

recouping...

after shift from hell
ordering plants online
to decompress

yet another april shower ...

the peach tree
standing
in the driving hailstone

chaffinches arrived

you children of spring
the first victim of traffic
was buried today


te kevään lapset
aikaisin täällä ja nyt jo
kuolleena maassa

cool morning

cool morning
in these spring leaves
fall colors

late morning
chatting with the new plants
to see who goes where

Who wins?

dumpster stink
jamines vine flowering
sweet smell dominates

weekend fun

when the car was fixed
doing my first plant runs
with weekly shopping

colors of sunset
land on the mountain top
brushed by the breeze

april wind -
a dead leaf
in my right shoe


***

vent d'avril -
une feuille morte
dans ma chaussure droite

.

post pluvia

post pluvia
so many sakura
reach for the sky


photo by lori bierly
words by mandy smith
© 2008

midnight

12 degree night
first culottes and
cleavages spill out
on sidewalks outside clubs
there's skin again

chatting with girlfriend
landscaping plans for her yard
with a space for me

Haiku - Vows

morning in my town –
bees and their blossoms
renewing vows

(Cross-posted at But Wait, There's More!)

Weeding

after a hard shift
warring against the wild mint
battling all ivy

his wheelchair shaded
my arthritic knees warm
in the sunlight

Following me

orange and black
going around and around
butterfly

Breaking the Law

waiting to cross street
in the middle of block
NOPD car stops
officer permits me
to jaywalk

(NOPD = New Orleans Police Department)

April shower

a concert-goer
runs through the rain
- programme over his head


(info re free international haiku contest on my blog)

breeze through the tulips:
tinkers, tinkers,
until the petals fall off

morning commutes-
first new bud on the rose bush
hangs in the moonlight

GREETING

Flowers turn
to the rising sun
in greeting


--R.K.SINGH

finally
after winter's dark fastballs
some off-speed pitches

(Crossposted at @haikutime)

cleansing

bad morning-
me versus the back yard weeds
they didn't have a chance

scents between seasons...
yesterday, onion grass
today, chimney smoke

(Crossposted at But Wait, There's More!)

early morning opera -
wind, rain, and
loud thunder

Falling

falling so fast
it's invisible--
april rain

No Sunrise

no sunrise...
dew beads
on a dead lilac

in the puddles
cherry blossoms:
kaleidoscope in the breeze

in the zoological gardens...

hungry(?)
sea-lion
opens the iron door

panda bear
asleep in tree
- still as a stuffed toy

humbolt penguins
on the rocks
- observing the people

stick-insects
unmoved by life
behind glass

dusk nearing dark —
even the forsythia
gives in to grey

(Cross-posted at But Wait, There's More!)

Swirl

swirl of the dentist's drill...
rain falling
straight down

Relaxation

end of long week
overcoming work stress
and weed free beds

Spring shopping, I meet
good old friends from Italy
Primofiori lemons

EL COLEGIO ROAD STROLL

long legged spider
struts slowly
my slower shadow

crow in the tree above
I look at him
silence

smoker's bench
taking the liberty I sit
and draft haiku

Great Find...

on the way home
sitting out on the curb -
free tiger lillies

black gold
that I can't wear -
gasoline

little palpitations

as the numbers turn -

buying gasoline

wherever I looked today....

birds
jumping
on each other's backs

bulb shopping-
planning a neighbor's garden
on her dime

Spring rain

spring rain-
maganolia and dogwood petals
wooshing past traffic

Don't panic!

at the side
of the path -
the lion's-teeth*

(*lion's-teeth are quite harmless - it's a straight translation of the german word for dandelion)

rain-bent,
the bamboo tries once more
to straighten up

(Cross-posted at But Wait, There's More!)

DREAM-BASED TANKA

the soldier wounds himself
with a plant bulb he uproots
"April is the cruelest month"
to keep fighting at the front
with babies at home

[third line line by t.s. eliot; "heard" in the dream]

reaching for a vest -
cherry blossom
laden with snow

mountain meltwater

thickening sky
mountain meltwater
surges by


photo by lori bierly
words by mandy smith
© 2008

Paignton 2008

harbourside puddle
a group of young turnstones
warble and waddle

words & photograph © 2008 gerald england

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Our boy stops to ask
how the grass knows
when to start

(Cross-posted at
But Wait, There's More!)

morning break-
shopping for new rose bushes
for Mother's Day

In the north

(In central Finland we still have loads of snow and all the lakes are frozen until early May. But, already, there is the warm sunshine and the first migrating birds.)


under the ice crust
unseen, unknown to us all
the fish greet the spring
---

jään alla hiljaa
kaloille tulee kevät
salaa kaikilta

a first bee bumping
through the forsythia:
sleepily

cool spring day-
wishing the fleece was enough
in the shade

Spring Sales

hot spring sales-
potted lillies and tulips

treasures
on the green lawn
African violets

cat staring at thermometer
in window box
hunting green lizard

on the way to work
not thinking of winning
I race the creek

(also twittered at "butwait")

FOOTSTEPS

Walking over
a carpet of dried leaves
hears own footsteps


--R.K.SINGH

without knowing why
I reach up to touch a new
unfurling leaf

~

spring thaw —
an old friend reaches
for the phone

(Cross-posted at But Wait, There's More!)

morning commute-
magnolia blossoms shimmer
under waning moon

.


.
Tokyo station-
my spring footsteps
over Basho's frog

.

Weed Therapy

sunday afternoon
weeding the front bed by hand
moving back to calm

first day of summer time -
playground slide
...a silver waterfall

Walking in the French Quarter - 3/27/2008

I took a couple of master classes this past Thursday as part of the Tennessee Williams Festival.

I had to walk several blocks to my car to go back to work, but it was a beautiful spring day!

Royal and St. Louis St.
classical notes spring
from upright piano

Royal and Toulouse
blues music
happy band

lunch in alley
baliadas
warm beans and tortillas

windy again -
crow raises
a ragged wing

how do they know?

sprouting
in the cool dark place
- the spuds

REVELRY

Spring revelry
on the Ganga's bank
my lone home


--R.K.SINGH

March snow -
white flowers
in the forsythia

***

neige de mars -
des fleurs blanches
dans le forsythia

WHAT GOES AROUND (a haibun)

The retirement community where I live is uniquely affordable for those of us less privileged. Still nothing can be or is wasted. A thrift shop on the grounds does a brisk business in items no longer needed by community residents. Its profits support the classes and cultural events offered by the Residents Association. Two residents trade a small refrigerator and a full-size one, the small one ultimately a gift to me. I purchase a microwave from another resident. Tonight, I carry a fan back to my room bought from yet another resident, thinking not only is necessity the mother of invention, but of conservation and caring.

the fan
goes round and round
my heart warms

Spring announcer

Black and white squares
flapping over ploughed field
Lapwing – another Spring announcer.


Sort / hvide firkanter
flaksende over pløjemarken
Viben – endnu en forårsbebuder

New Life

the ground is warming-
beautiful weeds in the yard
my fingers itching

Thru the Window

first watch-

stars hang in the forsythia

Easter weekend - pile-up on the autobahn!

Yellow helicopters
arriving at the crash scene
- not angry wasps

Day-glo doctors
working in the snow
with needles and stretchers

TV crew
with long cables -
cameras pointing everywhere

busy sparrow:
a long thread of grass
to weave around her

At the Bridal Department of the Consignment Store

future bride runs outside
not scared of prices
but of morning sickness

snow shower
on Knokke's dike -
where is the sea ?

***

averse de neige
sur la digue de Knokke -
où est passée la mer ?

blue skies
wisps of clouds
true artist - God

Moonligt Night

trying to catch sleep
seeing the moon travel
over the daffodils

Winter Bamboo

Bush of Bamboo
stands elegant
even with snow

spring by the calendar

more snow coming,
post equinox sun –
spray of orange peel

spring sunset
leaves me for the first time
in warm air
and loud crickets-
thinking of our first kiss

spring surfing-
looking for cool new plants
and flower boxes

MARIGOLDS

Expand smile
marigolds yellow petals -
the spring sun

--R.K.SINGH

nuance

behind the nodding
trembling daffodils
the yellow bush
the wild forsythia

spring cleaning

brings back memories

of spring cleaning

early commute-
enjoying the moon
while driving to work

creekside -
bank swallows make
a withdrawal

first fledglings -
spring just got
noisier

Easter Mass

easter mass
the candle flames
stright up

[A slightly revised older haiku, made into a haiga]

Easter Day

Easter day afternoon daffodils thrive on snow melt

words and photo © gerald england 2008

This was at 2pm - see what it was like at 6am on Ackworth born, gone West.

***

spring tide

awaiting the coming spring tide with patience

words by mandy smith
photo by phill deasson
© 2008

encouraged by the prompt at One Single Impression.

--

.

Easter Sunday
I paint a free range egg
a bright blue


Please visit Area 17 for a haiga by newcomer Mrs Chris Hulbert, who was one of a few who braved the elements back in March, and consider leaving a comment that she can read: Herefordshire Haiku: poems on the move

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GOOD FRIDAY

Unable to clean
the cobweb of years he eats
the passover meal
but forgets to wash the feet:
now drinks good friday prayers

--R.K.SINGH

morning surprises
tiny new leaves on rose bushes
first magnolia bud

UP AND DAWN (senryu series)

left cheek pressed
against the fantasy novel
two a.m. waking

up at three a.m.
the glow-in-the-dark Goddess
stands guard

memory stirs
shadowy four a.m. light
through lace curtains

giving up on sleep
and reaching for the lamp
dead heat with dawn

Last Year's Leaves

last year's leaves
pushed aside by
opening wildflowers...

if you had wanted it
this place, too, could hold memories

daffodils-
lifting up their heads
trumpeting spring

full moon -
maundy silver
for everyone


(Maundy Thursday)

walking under
a spring moon
the wind sighs

First Day of Spring

first day of spring
my friend
goes into labor

pure white
of snowdrop petals
first child

~for K.G. born March 19, 2008

St. Joseph's Day Haiku

See an explanation of this custom here!


peeking under
altar server's gown
tall, spiky heels

word left
word right
domes bounce sound

can't wait for Mass
to be over -
Italian treats

shaking with laughter:
the nuns
...the daffodils

No way Jose....

morning routine
Yuki eating his cat grass
and scoping my sausage

Budding

morning routine
counting new magnolia buds
outside the window

[Illustration and dreamku by Roswila (a/k/a Patricia Kelly); a dreamku is a very haiku-like new form based on night dreams]

Touching

touching
for the first time
wildflowers

City Park View

brown shorts, shirt, and tattoos
tying his boots
camouflage broken on rising

woodchuck
steps out of hibernation
into traffic

FRAMED NUDE

cherry pink
in the spring--
a framed nude


--R.K.SINGH

HIBISCUS

Love tickles
with erect pistil:
hibiscus


--R.K.SINGH

BUTTERFLY

A little child
chases the painted dreams
on butterfly wings

--R.K.SINGH

first cherry blossom -
branches reach
into snow clouds

morning commute
magnolias starting to pop
above the daffodils

in the meadow
a carpet of starlings
rising and falling

busy blackbirds
fly across the sun -
their whiskered shadows

dining alone
palm frond shadows play
across the table

a strange but true story

the scent of jasmine
from the blossom
of the apricot tree

street, rain-shined
reflections double crowds –
I halve the bread slice

Home Late

home late
on the rose stem
new thorns

hedge blossoms a motionless cat stares

Pokin' Through

warm morning
purple and yellow crocus
sprinkle the lawn

walking to the car
seeing a verdant blush
creep over the lawn

Purple Nettle

purple nettle...
beneath her make-up
a darkened bruise

what would you wish,
tiny sparrow in a big
pot of clover

The Curve

back-country curve
where two teenagers died...
so hesitant,
the fawn
preparing to cross

morning commute-
magnolia starts to bud
new growth on hedges

Philly Flower Show
smelling gardens in full bloom
while it pours outside

At Lake Pontchartrain

demarcation
grey skies, grey water
white caps

splash
hurling waves break up
hitting the shore

seawall interrupts
roaring wave
end of journey

daffodils gazing
into the stream -
typical narcissi

Last Morning

last quiet morning
before the birds' return…
in all these beginnings
how we focus
on the end

Seaside

seaside
we talk about resuming
the affair...
these pools that yesterday
were ocean

Encounters of the Deer kind

Dappled face looks up
from dewy grass. Cautious step.
Anxious chew, ear twitch.

sky
is hardest —
rainy day jigsaw


(Cross-posted at But Wait, There's More!)

spindly daffodils
and nests
of speckled eggs

the last things
before
the checkout

the deceptive
cold of spring
sunshine

march winds -
chirps, of tiny birds
blown shapeless

morning routine-
Yuki serenading the birds
right after first light

spring seep
the stink of skunk cabbage
rotting ice

blossom warmth

blossom warmth
she folds it into the quilt

Lunch at Caffea

impy Nicco invites himself
to my table
sipping a red juice

Nicco's mom pushes
big baby carriage
and pink hair

Nicco's brother declares
I am a Genius
on the t-shirt

6:45am

dawn's pink blush
fading now
in daylight's glare

through the park
young lovers -
daffodils' heads lean and touch

enjoying the day

picking out planters

to fill this seaaon

At the Freret St Farmer's Market this past Saturday

Daddy made me change careers
bartender now
soap and candle merchant

potential customer heard the story
walked away after
sniffing the wares

happy to make sale
happy to find soap
vendor and moi

ice storm
in the cemetery
fallen branches

pushing its new buds
through the razor-wire -
forsythia

Plottin'

this week's homework

laying out two mobile beds

for this year's garden

crocuses -
holding their cups
up to the sun

after the storm -
big trees
leaning on each other

holding each other up

two from the morning jog...

squirrel
grips base of tree
- looks up

the bird
flying home
with something in its beak


(have edited these - trying to contrast the squirrel's jerky movements
with the flight of the bird)

mother's day -
in a dark alley
she slurps her gin

Problems with sunlight

Oh Daffodil pot!
Daily I move you, hoping...
But you've found no sun

A Young Woman's Fancy

spring is in the air
a young woman's fancy
turns to new Cap Ex* work

* project work in manufacturing plants

Illness

his illness...
beneath the fallen tree
wood violet petals

we never cure the ones
who aren't sick

BIRTHDAY

Early spring breeze
greets my daughter again
17 Feb

--R.K.SINGH

in the spring sun -
a signwriter
laying on golden strokes

The fast approaching storm...

ice-blue
with ragged clouds
and a noise like a train



An Alpine forestry worker on TV said that the really big storms used to come
every 7or 8 years but now they come 4 times in one year. In one recent storm -'Kyrille' - 15,000,000 trees were uprooted. Approaching is 'Emma'.

Dreaming

weekend gardening-
ordering bulbs and plants
for a warmer day

Breathing in Spring

Garden book in mail
starting to plan this year's space
with sprouting seedlings

Walking with Wallace Stevens...

in the mouth
of the litter bin
a wrecked umbrella


bread shop
doing a brisk trade
in ice cream

jazz parade -
daffodil trumpets
straining


(for Gwilym in advance of Saturday)

Coat-free for an afternoon

Dismal grey breaks up
Discard my coat, oh it's warm!
Sun-scent suddenly

Planting Season

Tired of swatting Yuki*
for feasting on pointsetta-
time to plant cat grass


* the new cat

Man's best friend?

embraced in the park
by sex mad
dog


(only my dignity was injured)

Winter Again

serenading
at bedroom window
frigid Canadian wind

morning routine-
starting sooner everyday
as sun pours in window

kites in the gale
dogs stare
old ladies stream out behind

haiga

end of tax year
fresh floral furniture
in the street

words & photograph © 2008 gerald england

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under bare wisteria vine
cool Sunday
brunch

old narrow courtyard
original bricks
floor of outdoor eatery

yummy
Eggs Benedict
now a luxury find

11:00 a.m. brunch
young ladies with hangovers
walk slowly

Love is in the air

With the coming of warm weather we are once again plagued by ladybugs in our house.

Internet sites tell me that Asian lady beetles (Harmonia axyridis) were introduced by the government to benefit agriculture as a "biological control" of other insect pests.

To me these ladybugs are simply another insect pest. They invade our house. They swarm around ceiling lights. They fall into our food. They emit a foul odor when touched, swatted, swept, or vacuumed up. The stench of these bugs is almost unbearable.

They seem in particular to love our bathroom. They feed on spilled toothpaste. They emerge in force anytime one of us takes a long, hot, steamy shower.

They also fly about my face when I'm shaving. I catch them with dampened toilet paper. Then I flush them down the toilet.

I feel no remorse.


lady killer
the stench of
after shave

aware

aware
after giving blood
plum blossom rain

start of the week
grass and weeds shoot up
through the melting snow

mourning dove
after the long winter a
Cooper's hawk kills it

DANCE

Swirling spiral
of her skirt spills tides of dream
and memory:
I breathe fire in the dance
forgetting bends and twists


--R.K.SINGH

NUDITY

The wind lifts
her curved nudity hidden
in the water curtain:
I touch the strings that whisper
love in each falling drop


--R.K.SINGH

LOVE MESSAGE

His message to meet
at moonrise among the flowers
sparkles a secret
on her smiling face passion
glows with charming fervour

--R.K.SINGH

NAKED TREE

From a naked tree
siberian cranes watch
mustard wave

--R.K.SINGH

BUTTERFLY

Fluttering around
a golden marigold
golden butterfly


--R.K.SINGH

SPRING ACHE

My old joints ache
and allergies recur--
spring's youthful smile


--R.K.SINGH

Narcissus

sick in a way
he won't understand...
first narcissus

lengthening days...
more hours to fill
with other thoughts



Image: "Mariana" by Henrietta Rae

First customer?

a bee
sees that the snowdrops
are open for business

their white petals
wide open
like 3-pointed stars

upside down
& thin legs clinging -
bee enters

basil sprig from plate
spring at my fingers
pocketed

sunny morning in the park...

in a brown overcoat
a man sits -
looking down at a motor insurance booklet

in a pink jacket
a woman strolls -
looking down at her pushchaired child

in a green t-shirt
a jogger jogs -
looking forward to the next haiku

It's a breeze!

eight crows
riding the invisble
roller coaster

I Need World History Lessons

Drawn on Canadian tour bus
neighbor's pictorial history -
no idea what it means

Mine, Mine, Mine...

in the evenings
wrestling with kitty
over plant seedlings

crows
drop into the field
carrying light on their wings

Wake-up call...

blackbird singing
in breaking light
entering my window



(for the record: 6.00am, 22nd February)

fishing
Utah out of
the tip jar

Starting in 1999, each state was allowed a design on a 25 cent coin (quarter).

5 coins are issued each year.

However, some state coins are hard to find and rarely come to my neck of the woods.

Utah's quarter was one of these.

P.S. I did replace the Utah quarter with another one.

cracked footpath -
crocuses
reach out to the sun

new tags
on the highway bridge -
days get longer

***

de nouveaux tags
sur le pont de l'autoroute -
les jours rallongent

...and they say it won't rhyme!

hovering midges
and an orange moon
rising

Blame it on the moon

lunar eclispe-
waking mid sleep
to see the corona

lunar eclipse

a week of clear skies
night of the lunar eclipse
clouds come to cover

videos of lunar eclipse 2008.

Spring wind -
bullying
lifting skirts

eclipsing moon

eclipsing moon

our youngest one's

long yawn

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

look
the sun
is shining

Sophie Scholl Feb 22nd 1943 (on the way to the gallows)

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more information on the Poet-in-Residence blogspot

Break Forth

crisp afternoon-
first leaves on rosebush appear
wishing for spring

the snowdrops
shaking their heads
always shaking their heads

plum blossoms

plum blossoms
a gust of cool air
from the icebox

.

with a nod to William Carlos Williams and Bill Kenney

prancing king of
Bayou St. John
GOOSE

white cloth
moving as waves
flock of egrets

blooming today
Christmas cactus
a bit confused

It's been a while...

fitful sleep -
learning to share a bed
with the new cat

photo courtesy of KGT and Elon Weinstein

Weekend Class

gardening class-
trying to learn what mommy knows
but won't share

poet coughs nervously ...

on the ceiling
of the pissoir
a caterpillar

colors of spring
cover winter's carcass-
life after death
.
from Tangled in Wisteria

Clean Smell

the clean smell
of tulip bulbs
and turned earth...somewhere
I hope your shovel
is filled with snow





[Sweet revenge...:-)]

silver tulip shining
on the asphalt -
someone's lost ring

Waking up to bright sunshine and clear blue skies the gray dreariness of the past several days is now banished from my mind. Though the air is still cool and crisp the creamy Narcissists and hot pink Hyacinths remind me that spring is ready to show her beautiful face once again with all of her many colors.

spring sunshine
dresses up hyacinths
in hot pink colors

sun shining -
on the blue sky
moon's thumbprint

Indoor Spring

Indoors
Daffodils bud
early spring

the truck
fishtailing on back roads -
trout opener

Birdsong

birdsong...
all the coolness gone
from my pillow

welcoming spring -
crow punches the air
with his beak

At the Valentine's Day Dance

cheek to cheek
with happy ejaculations
of halitosis

(it was a very long time ago!)

early moning
bird watching at the window-
a furry tail flicks

February 15th

February 15th
a little less frost
on the path

Cold snap!

morning's snow flurry
leaves behind
black feathers of ice

.*.
*. *


grit and salt machine
arrives to
destroy the evidence

______
//////

It's Nice To Be Loved

Valentine's morning-
awaken by purring
and a kitty kiss

Bunch of Tulips
at the doorstep
my daughter’s admirer

on the neutral ground
joined for this lifetime
fern and palm tree

(Happy Valentine's Day, ya'll. A neutral ground is New Orleans-speak for a median.)

one red rose
its head
as big as a heart


(for Ann)

Rain Scent

rain scent...
lipstick stains
on the paino keys

I enjoyed being the Administrator for the Fall and Winter Haiku 2007 blogs!

Many thanks to Mandy for her invaluable advice.

I loved meeting new people (via email).

I am taking a little break so I can enjoy the nice weather (until the heat sets in!)

I would be willing to take another season in the near future.

Best wishes to Ashi for organizing this season. May you enjoy it as much as I did!

saying farewell
to one part of life
to enjoy more

Harbinger of Spring

cool morning
new batch of pansies popping
first crocus sprouting

CHERRIES

Seeking smell
in the cherries
yet to blossom


--R.K.SINGH

spring for sale

little shoots
forced in greenhouse pots
spring for sale


photo by lori bierly
words by mandy smith
© 2008

--

BLOOMING

Blooming
at the creeper's end
a flower


--R.K.SINGH

early blossoms

early blossoms
one more button

left undone

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This blog is open to all haiku poets! Please submit your FAMILY-FRIENDLY haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga, or haibun.

You can also submit photos or drawings to enhance our experience of reading your one-breath thoughts!

Artwork or photographs should be the original work of the contributor. If not, it is the contributor's responsibility to ensure that they have permission to use the work.

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The only requirement for posting is that there should be a Spring theme (or signs of Spring - given our erractic climate!).

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Welcome to Spring Haiku 2008

Greetings from:

Ashi - Administrator


Isabel - Co-administrator


This blog is open to all haiku poets! Please submit your FAMILY-FRIENDLY haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga, or haibun.



The blog will start on February 13th 2008 and end on May 12th 2008.