Haiku Sticky #591

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

I sip my coffee
each morning in March
 
outside the window
 
swelling buds redden
turn to gold, chartreuse,
then full-on spring

 

Happy Haiga Day!

Fellow poet, Tabatha Yeatts, will be featuring poems in two languages for National Poetry Month, which starts on Thursday.  She asked readers of her blog to contribute a short poem.  Read more here.  Here is my attempt, illustrated, of course.

 

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

windows
open again in spring--oh!
...the barking, barking

les fenêtres
s'ouvrent à nouveau au printemps--oh!
...les aboiements, les aboiements

 

 

Haiku Sticky #590

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:  

definition of paradox

my second dose of vaccine
delivered by a member
of the military

I've marched against
war for fifty years

 

Happy Haiga Day!

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

pandemic year two

the old signposts have
been worn away

now's not the time to
realize that moss can grow
on all sides of a tree

Haiku Sticky #589

I'm not going to call this a haiku, nor is it a senryu.  I think of it as a quip.

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

March 17th:
New England boiled dinner's
day in the sun

Happy Haiga Day!

In years past I've forced many a hyacinth bulb.  The flowers were always full and fragrant and an inspiration for many of the poems found under the label, "hyacinths and other flowers."  The photo below is the best of the four bulbs I attempted to force this year.  The rest barely poked up their heads before shriveling.

 

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

 
forcing hyacinths

during this pandemic
the wait unbearable

and in the end
delight for neither
eyes nor nose

Haiku Sticky #588

 Starting this week, Haiku Sticky day will be on Wednesdays.

 

 © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved

Text:

snow recedes

is that a bit of green

I see?

Happy Haiga Day!

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved

Text:

the musicality of March sunshine

Haiku Sticky #587

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

rain again
kicking off the blankets
reluctantly