a cool prickle
as summer rain hits my bare skin
the earth smells warm
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These poems were written in response to Carpe Diem #768 tsuyu (rainy season), another great prompt hosted by Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. All of the poems in the link-up can be read here. And, to finish, here’s Bill Withers –
IN MEMORY EVERYTHING SEEMS TO HAPPEN TO MUSIC -Tennessee Williams
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The warm scent of earth — a favorite! Wonderful that you’ve used scent and touch here — and not a visual. LOVE IT. 🙂
I must admit I’ve been trying (and failing) to get the sense of smell into haiku more often – going waaay back to a prompt that you wrote at CDHK once. But I hadn’t realised that this has no visual at all, so thanks for pointing that out 😉
Ah! You remember! Yay! 😀
It’s difficult to include scent … it really is. I’ve neglected scent a bit too much too.
Oh of course I remember – to quote Bruce Lee: “absorb what is useful” 😉
Well, those haiku moments are supposed to be immediate, aren’t they – and it’s not often that smells are what strike us first about a scene. So, once the sights and sounds are ticked off there’s often no room in our 17 syllables. Still, it’s something to aim for, now and then, hey.
Exactly! Unless the scent is overwhelming or extremely powerful … we don’t think about it.
“Absorb what is useful” — makes me smile 🙂