A Year’s Worth of Haikus
A light-hearted read for the weekend: haikus for every season, and a good excuse to upload some favourite pictures.
January
Perfect crunch on ice
Spiked boots and burning muscle
Welcome warmth of soup
February
Where are friendships now?
The chalet sighs for Christmas
Lights buried in snow
March
How much hope, what joy,
When stubborn hardy rootling
Gushes forth from sod!
April
Long before the fall
The camellia’s head hung low
Blushing memory
May
Scented white lilac –
However brief its glory
There is no contest
June
No cherries this year.
I wonder if this season
Will greet me again.
July
So much life and hope
Drinks and laughter lighten
On long summer days
August
Annual body roast.
Not a second on the beach
To savour salt air.
September
Back! Back! They twitter.
Settling nicely in the groove,
Keeping tan well creamed.
October
Demented squash shapes
Stretch out arms imploring, catch
Chill hush in the air.
November
So it closes in:
Each year a little harder
To bear the long-streaked rain.
December
Not naughty, not nice –
Can it be time already
To freeze our desires?
Love them all, but especially the rootling gushing forth in March :)
Now that you mention it, I am not sure a rootling can really gush out of the soil – because it’s the plant itself rather than the root that surges forth… Ah, well, details, details, as they say when they cut the wrong man’s head off!
First time I read Haiku for the months – very well done. Thank you for sharing :-)
Yay! Your comment came through this time. Sorry about the glitch before (we had a thunderstorm that day, maybe that explains it). Japanese haikus are actually supposed to be seasonal – or at least have an allusion to the seasons or months in every single one. Of course, Western haikus very often do not have that.
Oh, November! Oh, August! How quickly we forget the seasons. Thank you!
Loved it, especially April :)
What a beautiful post! And thanks so much for weighing in solar lights. I also like candles in bags. For parties, I think it’s a lovely way to lead guests up to the house or through your garden. :)
I love your blog – I am a frustrated interior designer at heart, I think! Thanks for visiting and commenting.
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I especially like your March, May, and November. Haikus are so fun and lovey in their simple forms.
Or:
Haikus are so fun
lovely in their simple forms
You’ve reminded me.