Random Noodling: March 2021

March 30, 2021

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

March 28, 2021

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.

Text:

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

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

March 24, 2021

Haiku Sticky #590

Text:

definition of paradox

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

I've marched against
war for fifty years

March 20, 2021

Happy Haiga Day!

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

March 17, 2021

Haiku Sticky #589

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

Text:

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

March 14, 2021

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.