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?
