As you-all know haiku is a Japanese poetic form. They are m ore loose with the number of lines and numbers of syllables, but we Anglos seem to have adopted a structured form of three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. I like the discipline; I find it easier to be creative sometimes when the picture you are painting is bounded by a frame!
So here are three winter haiku as I reflect on my experience of my 85th winter.
Winter’s cold dark days
Turn souls inward, watching
For the groundhog’s sign.
Winter’s main task is not
To wait, but to spend this time
Being and becoming.
Under the snow lie bulbs
Spreading their deep roots below
Prepared to blossom forth.
Got a haiku you can share/ Send them to me.
PurpleSage41 