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A Calendar of Haiku - March
... a shepherds warning. Or is it a Welsh Dragon belching fire from the mountains! ...
Mistle Thrush sing from the Churchyard Yews on a blustery morning, in early March - the sky a fiery red just before sunrise.
red skies -
from wind-tossed trees
stormcock sing
The photo is of an early morning sunrise, over the old Roman hill-fort of Dinas Dinorwic (the site of an earlier Iron Age settlement), taken from outside our kitchen window. I have digitally enhanced the contrast for a more dramatic effect.
First published in the Wales Haiku Journal - Spring 2019
Note: Published in error ahead of time. Sorry! Please enjoy anyway.
Next month - ‘April Morning’
Have you a favourite March ‘moment’ … please share. We’d love to hear about it …
Enjoying the post!
solitary snowdrop
inches
in march snow
Alan Summers
Azami Special Edition ed. Merrill Ann Gonzales (Japan 1995)
I had to deliberately mention the name of the month directly as we often associate snow in December, and possibly January and February, in some of the UK. The event and haiku would have been submitted in the same year. I even remember fairly thick snow in April and May in different years.
Alan
Thanks Alan. Love the haiku.
Yes, ‘seasonality’ has tripped me up on a few occasions, especially with our unpredictable weather. I also found the association of a bird with a particular season a bit difficult to get my head round – as for example a bird I associate with summer winds – the kestrel – is seen as a ‘Winter’ bird!
I think the Mistle Thrush might be my favourite bird. I sadly rarely see one now, but think they are such a noble bird.
Thanks Deborah, we’re lucky where we live I think, as we have a pair that nest in the local Churchyard just up the lane a bit from our house. So later in the year we have noisy family parties visiting the fields and hedges next to the garden. In winter they monopolise the yew trees fighting off all comers!
Good to be ahead of ourselves, sometimes! Guess there will be more winds!
‘Tis a tad frustrating though as I’ve now got to wait that little bit longer before I can publish April’s Calendar!