Welcome to Poetry Friday! This week we are hosted by our friend, author, and poet Irene Latham HERE. Thank you, Irene!
I’ve been celebrating NPM by writing a haiku and sharing it on Facebook each day. I find an haiku a day doable and it also keeps me paying attention to the beauty I see around me every day. I also have found poems in my photo library and using them to inspire a poem. Here are my first four haiku..
April 1
With springtime comes mud,
clouds, rainstorms, even snow squalls.
But then . . . daffodils.
© Janice Scully 2024
April 2
AT THE SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDENS
From South Africa
proud and tall King Proteus
on an American tour.
© Janice Scully 2024
April 3
Penning a poem
on a rainy spring morning--
question: which is which?
© Janice Scully 2024
April 4
REFRACTION
White light is a mix
of many different colors--
and so, the rainbow.
© Janice Scully 2024
I look forward to the next line of the Progressive Poem, soon to be revealed by Irene Latham on her blog Live Your Poem . Thank you Margaret Simon for organizing it. It’s really fun to see the poem develop each day. Below is a list of poets to help you follow along during National Poetry Month.
April 1 Patricia Franz at Reverie
April 2 Jone MacCulloch
April 3 Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
April 4 Leigh Anne Eck at A Day in the Life
April 5 Irene at Live Your Poem
April 6 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
April 7 Marcie Atkins
April 8 Ruth at There is No Such Thing as a God Forsaken Town
April 9 Karen Eastlund
April 10 Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
April 11 Buffy Silverman
April 12 Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise
April 13 Denise Krebs at Dare to Care
April 14 Carol Varsalona at Beyond Literacy Link
April 15 Rose Cappelli at Imagine the Possibilities
April 16 Sarah Grace Tuttle
April 17 Heidi Mordhorst at my juicy little universe
April 18 Tabatha at Opposite of Indifference
April 19 Catherine Flynn at Reading to the Core
April 20 Tricia Stohr-Hunt at The Miss Rumphius Effect
April 21 Janet, hosted here at Reflections on the Teche
April 22 Mary Lee Hahn at A(nother) Year of Reading
April 23 Tanita Davis at (fiction, instead of lies)
April 24 Molly Hogan at Nix the Comfort Zone
April 25 Joanne Emery at Word Dancer
April 26 Karin Fisher-Golton at Still in Awe
April 27 Donna Smith at Mainly Write
April 28 Dave at Leap of Dave
April 29 Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge
April 30 Michelle Kogan at More Art for All
Janice, I am in love with your daffodils! Yay for botanical themed haiku for this NPM…and the rainbow!! Yay! Lovely. Thank you so much for sharing. xo
Thank you, Irene. I finally figured out how to comment on your blog. I cracked the Google code. 🙂
Your haiku is going to be a marvelous ‘haiku’ April diary, Janice! I love the lead up to those beautiful daffodils! We get so little rain here so your rainbow is like a gift. Have a great weekend!
Janice, thank you for sharing your haiku for the first few days of the month. Lovely. I like the possibilities in “which is which?” and that there isn’t a photo with that poem. The rainbow and white light is beautiful!
I don’t know where the which is which poem came from. I was feeling that there wasn’t much to say about that rainy day. 🙂
Hi Janice,
We seem to have many rainbowless rain falls here in No. Fla., so I’m glad you included the bow – an unusual one! [I didn’t know of this kind of rainbow before now…] Your month of Haiku verses with images is bound to creatively continue as these – a lovely lens close up on some magic moments.
Appreciations!
Thanks for sharing your lovely haikus–I especially like the first one, ending with the reward of daffodils.
Hi, Janice! I love the King Proteus haiku:
AT THE SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDENS
From South Africa
proud and tall King Proteus
on an American tour.
My son and I visited the SFBG last June! It is a fabulous place! It looks like you got to see a lot of cool plants, too! Love it. (Hopefully, the anthology will have its birthday this week!) Thanks for sharing your writing!
Thanks,Carol! Good news about the anthology. I will be excited to see it!
Personal writing projects and challenges are what make us committed and disciplined, Janice, so I wish you continuing success with yout month long haiku quest. I’m a big fan of daffodils so your first haiku caught my eye.
But then…daffodils! Yes. And the mud makes the daffodils all the more welcome.
I’m also a big fan of your daffodil haiku! We’re buried in snow right now, but it will melt quickly and I’m hoping to see some green shoots beneath, and then eventually some flowers. I love that you’re creating a haiku diary for the month, and look forward to reading more.
Lovely photos and haiku, Janice. “But then…daffodils” is a perfect reminder of how we often need to get through the yuck in life to get to the reward.
Daily haikus make for such a fun way to keep a diary! Here’s my daffodil haiku from 4/3 after torrential rains that flooded our yard:
oh, April
you give us daffodils
then trample them
That’s a sad poem! My daffodils almost froze this year after a late snow storm, but somehow didn’t.
I love “and so the rainbow” !! That line is a poem all by itself!
Janice, I am backtracking to see whose blog I did not visit. I am delighted to see your haikus and wonder if you would be interested in offering one of these beauties to my NPM Gallery of Artistic Expressions, Poetry Parade.
Thank you! I’ll send you one.