Welcome to Poetry Friday, this week hosted by the talented Jone McCullough Here. Thank you, Jone, for hosting.
Also thanks to all the poets participating in the Progressive Poem.
Each week a different poet adds a line to the poem during the month of April. You can find a list of websites Here, in the margins of Margaret Simon’s website, and follow along. Thank you, Margaret, for organizing this fun event.
I’m written an haiku each day on Facebook, most with a photo. Here’s a few more.
#5 NPM
CHINATOWN CELEBRATION
Year of the Dragon
symbol of strength and courage--
good fortune to you!
Young girl playing the zither in San Francisco to celebrate the new year.
#6 NPM
green and gold brushstrokes
paint the California hills--
up close: wildflowers!
#7 NPM
BY A SIDEWALK IN PACIFICA, CA
cacti in blossom
celebrating early spring,
each in its own way
#8 NPM
TORCH LILLY
Caution when you walk,
petals exploding in flame!
"Hot poker" in bloom.
#9 NPM
THROUGH CLOUDS AT AROUND 3:30
The solar eclipse
by indirect evidence
dark sky, quiet birds.
Day # 10 NPM
February at the San Francisco Botanical Gardens
Fragrant, velvety
Evergreen Magnolia--
Kathmandu native
Day #11 NPM
CAMELLIAS IN QUEUE
Crimson showstopper!
Eager to reveal yourself--
others wait their turn.
Enjoy National Poetry Month! It’s been fun writing an haiku for each day, spending the morning thinking about words, learning a little more about flowers.
Have a great weekend!
What a wonderful way to celebrate NPM, and fortuitous today with Jone’s post focussing on Carol’s ekphrastic anthology.
It’s been wonderful finding all the blooming just these recent days, Janice. I love your daily haiku diary. Hope you put it together in a book!
Thanks for sharing all this goodness. I especially like seeing all the nature photos (and the poems!)
An ambitious, beautiful project for this month, Janice. Lovely haiku.
What a wealth of haikus on spring you bring to us today, Janice. Would you join me at my Poetry Parade Padlet to offer one of your haikus with your nature photo to adorn the walls and later become an entry in my Gallery? I would love that.
Janice, your haiku this month would make a great photographic poetry book. The images are stunning. I especially like the Magnolia and that you identify its native land. The camellias stopping the show and making everyone else have to wait is brilliant.
Wonderful photos and haiku! Thanks for all the smiles today. 🙂
Thank you for sharing these Janice! The eclipse one in particular felt delightful– and so true! Animal behavior during an eclipse is fascinating!
Loving that, “hot poker in bloom.” Happy Poetry Month. Haiku looks good on you.
What fun! I love the indirect evidence of the eclipse, and the contrast from the several show-stopping brilliant spring blooms to the blooming cactus. Each in its own way. So much open-armed acceptance of the beautiful variety of our world. Thanks, Janice!
A delightful collection of haiku, Janice! I love the “showstopper crimson” of the Camellias. 🙂
Love your “Hot poker” in bloom, Janice. Looks like your SF/Pacifica visit was full of beauty.
What a fun roundup of haiku! I especially love your eclipse observations. It was magnificent, even when muted.
Janice,
Thanks for sharing your daily haiku for Poetry Month. It is a fun project to see come to live. I’ll have to remember it in the future. I especially like the one about the eclipse. We were in Buffalo, NY that day and didn’t see much except for the very quickly appearing and disappearing darkness! Thanks again for being part of the anthology! I hope you are thrilled with the end result!
Thank you,Carol. I’m so excited about the anthology and so impressed that you did it. I read your interview with Jone and think it’s so true that you have to think for yourself and just move forward, trusting yourself. When will it be for sale?
Hi Janice! Enjoyed your haiku. I especially was struck by #6. Both views are true and different!
It is so fun to see your haiku. My poem writing has suffered this month, although I am very much in the weeds with my middle grade novel.