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