Haiku Sticky #500--Yay!

I made it to 500! That's more than 500 Tuesdays since I started (no Haiku Stickies were posted during April in 2018 and 2019). Somehow I doubt if I'll get to 1,000, but I'll begin on the next 500 a week from today!

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Text:

summer coming...
peppermint patties
stashed in the freezer

Happy Haiga Day!

Earlier this week, heading up the NH coast to Maine, I saw a bald eagle. It was quite a surprise, but I was also taken aback by the landscape in which this American symbol appeared. Sadly, it is appropriate to this week.

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Photo courtesy Yellowstone NPS; digitally altered by me.

Text:

today I saw a bald eagle
perched on a dead tree
in the midst of a swamp

my high school English
teacher would have loved

this lesson in irony

Haiku Sticky #499

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Text:

days of rain
between the showers
a wild rabbit eats

Happy Haiga Day!

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Text:

after too many years

she gently closes
the door
behind her

a slam is not needed
when the reverberations
come from her soul

Haiku Sticky #498

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Text:

four straight nights
the gentle patter of rain
now grates

Happy Haiga Day!

Here are the other two postcards created for the April Spark postcard exchange; both are cherita poems.

Since it's been raining almost nonstop for the past month, I'm hoping we'll miss pine pollen coating everything. It'll be washed away before it can fly around.

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Text:

spring in bloom

you can't blame the pine
for envying the flowers

she does her best to add to
the color medley by spreading
yellow pollen over all


The dandelions won't be in full force for a few weeks, and although they're weeds, they're a bright, cheery yellow.

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Text:

spring dusk

one dandelion flower
remains open

the tickle of a warm
breeze invites self-indulgence
in the both of us

Haiku Sticky #497

After taking the month of April off, Haiku Sticky Tuesdays are back. I'm up to 497! I've written nearly 500 haiku and other poems, which fit on a sticky note, since August 2009.

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Text:

who would have thought
so much green is possible
...May rain

Happy Haiga Day!

April was a postcard exchange month for the Spark community. I had to create original postcards to send to four individuals using the general topic of spring. The first two are early signs of spring--crocus and forsythia. The second two occur slightly later in the season. Today I'll post the early spring ones, both of which are small poems.

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Text:

New England Gardens in Spring

Her six-month lease is up.
Granite and gneiss is the trash
she leaves behind as Winter
reluctantly vacates the premises.

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Text:

Spring Impossibility

Getting an accurate count
of rabbit kits gamboling...
in
out
under
a forsythia bush.