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
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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!
A bright sunny warm day that is the first day we’ve had this year which really feels like Spring at last. Magpie are taking sticks and twigs up into the Poplar nearest the house – just where it forks and where the ivy climbing it’s trunk is at its thickest. Mixed feelings about this as they do bully and chase the other birds – we don’t want more!
After heavy rain overnight and early this morning the day brightened up by lunchtime with some sunshine breaking through every now and then. Mild.
Lots of finches – Chaffinch, Greenfinch, and Goldfinch (7) and a single Male Siskin on the feeders. It was great to see the Siskin back – absent all winter – I wonder if that means they breed locally. Blue Tit and Great Tit in small numbers. The odd Robin and Dunnock. Blackbird and Song Thrush
Another in the run of bright sunny days but with a cold northerly wind. Coal Tit singing around the garden mid-morning
Beautiful words and lovely recording of the Mistle Thrush. Thank you, Clive
I’m glad you liked it Louise. Thanks for commenting. I’ve been delving deeper into your blog and being a Somerset lad myself I particularly enjoyed your post about Glastonbury Tor.