Autumn of life

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Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is hosting an Autumn Retreat themed ‘Departure’.  A recent glance in my car mirror inspired the first haiku and two more came after that:

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Mirror glance 

confirms youth has gone

lines deepen

~

In autumn

I count falling leaves

life is short

~

Summer is

growing and dying

all at once

~

©2017 Ontheland

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My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

14 thoughts on “Autumn of life”

  2. What a lovely series of haiku, Janice, which can be read individually or together. The first one rings true, it’s my birthday soon and the lines are certainly showing more 🙂 The second haiku is contemplative and links to the first – counting lines and counting leaves. The third reminds us that seasons are always in flux.

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