after days of frost
a mild dew hangs on the grass
waves of bird song
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This poem was inspired by the brief cracks appearing in the winter, and by the struggle to remember the knack of finding haiku. And, to finish, here’s Grant Hart –
swaying in the sun
you were right when I saw you
in the deep frost, snowdrops
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This poem was written in response to March 18, 2018: Ostara, another great prompt at Seeds and Sand. The prompt and poems can be read here. And, to finish, here’s Utah Saints, Kate Bush, and some gratuitous slo-mo t & a –
a sole raven
the field full of frost
with a tear
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem #865 torn apart book (reading nature), another great prompt from Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. All of the poems in the link-up can be read here. And, to finish, here’s Smog –
before the warmth
of tears, eyelashes clink with frost
in winter darkness
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem #848 Frosted Grass, another great prompt from Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. All of the poems in the link-up can be read here. And, to finish, here’s Elmore James –
twilight frost gets ignored
in a doorway, in a basque
in December
working in Soho
the street’s damp blooms
in the twilight frost
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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem Special #124, Richard Wright’s last haiku of this month, another great prompt hosted by Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. All of the poems in the link-up can be read here. Admittedly, the prompt took me a long way from Richard Wright’s haiku this time, but ah well… here are The Pogues.
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