A Calendar of Haiku - December
An early morning walk down our lane in the December snows of last year - a Wren sings loudly from the briar by the field gate. Another churrs angrily from moss covered stones haphazardly filling a gap in the hedge ...
drifting snow ...
shattering the silence,
a wren sings
Read (or play) the Haiku out loud, and listen to the startlingly loud song of the Wren.
A sneak preview of what I hope will become a monthly series of posts for next year.
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Next month - ‘January Woods’
First published in the Wales Haiku Journal - Summer 2019
I’m excited for this new series!
I’m excited by these too, Cathy! They are short, fun and full of imagery. I think they complement my longer pieces of nature writing and the artist biographies quite well. I can’t wait to publish my next one for January …
Lovely Clive! I can hear the silence of the snow, the crisp of footsteps accompanied by the song of the wren!
Thanks Andrea – that’s exactly it! Walking in the snow was a bit like being in a soundproof room – I could only hear my own footsteps and was quite startled when a Wren burst out singing.
We’ve left a logpile, from a felled poplar, in the the garden and the Wren love this.
I look forward to this new series! I’ve been trying to write hokku/haiku on a seasonal basis. Only writing winter verses in winter and so on. It is very “theraputic” (not sure that’s the right word) and reminds me of the importance the seasons within the cycle of life and how I should behave within that season. The difficulty I have is ignoring or disposing of the baggage of the well lived life, nearly 70 years of it! Your wren haiku is beautiful!
Thank you Ashley. They have rather taken over my writing this last year. I’ve reread some of your posts from the last couple of years – I like your haiku, especially the ‘Marigold’ one. I too have almost 70 years of life from which to draw on. Still each day brings new experiences and new memories. Happy Christmas !
Yes, they tend to take over! I’ve written very little else! I do publish some of them, you can find them along with others at: https://masashimono.wordpress.com/2019/12/12/silence/
It’s Christmas Day so enough from me except to wish you happy Yule!
I’m excited about reading your others – thank you. Happy Christmas.