April begins National Poetry Month! So many poets/bloggers I’ve met on Poetry Friday, have begun National Poetry Month projects. So I think it’s about time, the last hour and a half of April First, the first day of NPM, to begin a project, too.
I would like to write more of the short ancient illusive form called the haiku. It’s a familiar short form that looks easy but isn’t. So my celebration of NPM will be to try to write one haiku, maybe two a day, based on something I would like to remember, like a snapshot.
Today I discovered my first haiku while raking grass, in Central New York when it’s time for spring clean up. I wrote a second haiku this afternoon.
Outside, the ground is softening, studded with debris.
4/1/23 8AM pine cones in April half stuck in thick brown wet mud— snubs springtime clean-up ©Janice Scully 2023 Draft
4/1/4PM sudden wind, trees shake, sunny skies switch to grey— such a foolish day! Janice Scully 2023 Draft
I didn’t know you were writing every day, Janice, so glad you came by my post! These are just right for your ‘snapshots’. What fun it will be at the end to look back & remember. We’re in such different climates, almost never having mud, so love the thought of pinecones in ‘thick brown wet mud’. And I love “such a foolish day”. We have very warm days today into Monday, then fast drop & snow on Tuesday, another “foolish day”. Ha!