Spring Haiku 2008

Time to Change

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Most of the Summer Haiku Blog 2008 is up.

I've sent out the invitations.

Click here to begin posting!

From Spring to Summer

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Summer time

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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

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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

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

Päivästä toiseen
sataa - koivut kutovat
vihreää pitsiä

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afternoon commute
spring rain soothing
my jangles nerves

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

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

Enjoying the sights...

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afternoon commute
dogwood blossoms
bounce in the breeze

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

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

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balmy spring evening

a fox startled in the headlights;

coming out of church

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cherry blossoms
May wind and butterfly -
writing a haiku ?

***

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

2008-05-03T19:07:00.001+02:00

quiet afternoon
landscape planning
for friend's new house

Early Summer Evening

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

retail therapy

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

Summer Haiku 2008 in a fortnight

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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

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first of May
in the rose bush
a fresh feeder

text and image © 2008 gerald england

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origami class -
sun through the window
unfolds a tulip

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May Day
an ominous lump on
the radiograph

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afternoon chores
filling some new flower pots
while the dryer runs

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

renga party!

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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

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always surprising -
from the African summer
the early swallows

***

aina yllättäen -
Afrikan kesästä
varhaiset pääskyset

Freedom

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after car dies
renting one
to go plant shopping

Early trip to the grocery store

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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

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first iris unfurls
in the monrning sun

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trees dance

in the sunset glow-

spring breeze

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

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

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

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memories forsaken
the golden yellow
of this one rose

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dawn light
nothing else
in the spider web

***

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

daffodils dead

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daffodils dead
dandelions and daisies
take over

© 2008, gerald england

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digging garden bed
enjoying the warm soil
through my fingers

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a chorus of frogs
beyond the high gate
vastness settles in

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11:30 Mass

Lunch at In-Laws

Children playing

in backyard garden

Wife holds my hand

profusion of color

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morning commute
rainbow of lillies
swaying in the breeze

Flowers for Alfons (April, 1945)

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Along the rivers bank,

Poppies erupt

Staccato, crimson bursts

Seeping slowly

Into the Oder

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blossoms opening
and my grateful heart, too —
impossibly wide

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

theatre bar

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drinking
with dodgy characters
from Dostoyevsky

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green velvet shoes
and she turns
her ankle

recouping...

2008-04-23T20:27:00.002+02:00

after shift from hell
ordering plants online
to decompress

yet another april shower ...

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the peach tree
standing
in the driving hailstone

chaffinches arrived

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

te kevään lapset
aikaisin täällä ja nyt jo
kuolleena maassa

cool morning

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cool morning
in these spring leaves
fall colors

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

Who wins?

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dumpster stink
jamines vine flowering
sweet smell dominates

weekend fun

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

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

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april wind -
a dead leaf
in my right shoe

***

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

.

post pluvia

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post pluvia
so many sakura
reach for the sky

photo by lori bierly
words by mandy smith
© 2008

midnight

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

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

Haiku - Vows

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morning in my town –
bees and their blossoms
renewing vows

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

Weeding

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

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his wheelchair shaded
my arthritic knees warm
in the sunlight

Following me

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orange and black
going around and around
butterfly

Breaking the Law

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

(NOPD = New Orleans Police Department)

April shower

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

(info re free international haiku contest on my blog)

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

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

GREETING

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Flowers turn
to the rising sun
in greeting

--R.K.SINGH

2008-04-15T05:42:00.002+02:00

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

(Crossposted at @haikutime)

cleansing

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

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

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

2008-04-13T02:46:00.000+02:00

early morning opera -
wind, rain, and
loud thunder

Falling

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falling so fast
it's invisible--
april rain

No Sunrise

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no sunrise...
dew beads
on a dead lilac

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in the puddles
cherry blossoms:
kaleidoscope in the breeze

in the zoological gardens...

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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

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dusk nearing dark —
even the forsythia
gives in to grey

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

Swirl

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

Relaxation

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end of long week
overcoming work stress
and weed free beds

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

EL COLEGIO ROAD STROLL

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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...

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

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black gold
that I can't wear -
gasoline

little palpitations

as the numbers turn -

buying gasoline

wherever I looked today....

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birds
jumping
on each other's backs

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

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Spring rain

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spring rain-
maganolia and dogwood petals
wooshing past traffic

Don't panic!

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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)

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

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

DREAM-BASED TANKA

2008-04-06T20:23:00.003+02:00

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]

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reaching for a vest -
cherry blossom
laden with snow

mountain meltwater

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Paignton 2008

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

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

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

In the north

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(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

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a first bee bumping
through the forsythia:
sleepily

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

Spring Sales

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hot spring sales-
potted lillies and tulips

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treasures
on the green lawn
African violets

cat staring at thermometer
in window box
hunting green lizard

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

(also twittered at "butwait")

FOOTSTEPS

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Walking over
a carpet of dried leaves
hears own footsteps

--R.K.SINGH

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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!)