early spring

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drama in spring skies—

biblical rays from heaven,

piercing skylark calls

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This February afternoon scene behind my house is embellished by skylark calls in response to Frank J Tassone’s recent Haikai Challenge. Skylarks are native to Europe and Asia and are well-known inhabitants of the English language.  In North America we have horned larks living in dirt fields, shorelines and tundra.

This YouTube video features skylark sounds:

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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.

18 thoughts on “early spring”

    1. We have ice and snow too 🙂 However it is still early spring if you consider the changing sunlight…brighter and longer hours…I never thought of it this way before but it helps me to feel spring’s emergence this way…counteracts my impatience with up and down temperatures.

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      1. I always look forward to the winter solstice for just that reason… longer days. But with all our ice and freezing temps I just can’t imagine spring yet. Maybe if I saw some bulbs breaking ground 🙂

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