A spring cliché unexpectedly came true for me yesterday, on the first day of spring. I saw my first robin for the year! To celebrate the occasion I wrote two haiku:
Perched on a high branch,
red breast unmistakeable,
robin announces spring.
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Sight of first robin
serenading open sky
warms a chilly day.
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Both beautiful Janice, the second has a real Japanese touch.
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Thank you 🙂
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I love the second haiku. There is something magical about the spaces between the lines–they invite the reader to dream 🙂
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Thanks Melinda .. a ‘less is more’ situation 🙂
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😀 you’re welcome 🙂 that’s the fun of haiku 🙂
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That’s one reason I like it 🙂
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😀 yes it is
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What a beautiful, blue sky to hear the serenading robin. No robins here yet. 😦 Loved your post.
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Thanks Olga — I was surprised to see one up in a tree–usually first sightings are on the ground pulling worms. (The pic is a public domain shot so it wasn’t my blue sky but the type of robin and the position on a barren branch depict what I saw)
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Your beautifully expressed poetry inspired me to compose a Haiku, too! Free flying robin… Aloft in the springtime clouds… Sees sights we cannot. Check out my Parable about a Robin: https://thomasbonich.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/a-parable/
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Very nice haiku. You might want to check out the weekly Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge if you haven’t already. I’ll drop by your blog 🙂
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I thank you for believing I’m ready for the RWHC and for your blog comment.
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It’s a very open challenge community. Lots of us started writing haiku by participating. You’re ready to join in any time: http://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com
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I wrote my very first Haiku as a High School 10th grader: Apollo Thirteen… Astronauts fly to the Moon… Hoping for success. Just one day later their fuel cells’ oxygen tank exploded and nearly ended their lives
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I can understand why you would have remembered that event! Nice haiku 🙂
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