The Month in Haiku
Crows fly to the river
carrying three thin sticks–
true first day of Spring
All over the city
maple pollen falls
in circles of plenty
Yard full of dandelions
becoming bee food
soon to be honey
A chickadee works millet
seed in the flowerlight
of the camellias.
Dogwoods, pink and white
lilacs, purple and white
greening of the far hills
The egg shaped moon wanes
in the bare walnut tree
hours before dawn.
When words cannot touch
experience: the abundantsilence of God.
The windchimes sing before
the sun arrives: blind herold.Beyond sight, there’s still song.
No words now
only color and the way
the light grows
through the year
Tavia and Lorrie Tom let the poems they wrote as a part of the Poetry Pie Writing Challenge become the story of a month. So in the light of their sweet inspiration, I gathered my nine poems too. I love how the tiny poems seem to rally and become more than the sum of their parts, more thans a few quick lines before the day begins.
This month has been full and good. But also full. The next six weeks hold a Shakespeare performance and bees coming to live at my house and graduation celebrations and house guests. More good. More full.
And the hundred year old chestnut tree outside my window is in bloom and glorious.
How has this Poetry Month unfolded for you?
Simply beautiful haiku! I loved reading them all together, like you said. What a picture they paint of a month!
I haven’t polished any poems this month but I have written a few, the same prompts I give my kids for their writing assignments, and that has been a joy. (I’ve been a longtime reader of poetry but only a recent writer. 💗)
"the egg shaped / moon" and "flowerlight"
Delicious words, Kortney!
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I'm slowly working my way through Marjorie Lotfi's class this month--it's so good! She is beautifully generous and I'm taking joy in filling my notebook with all 30 of her April lessons.
https://marjorielotfi.substack.com/?utm_source=global-search
I've also been writing a few micro-poems for each tiny season. Poem-snacks :-)