Frühjahrsmüdigkeit – – haiku

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morning haze…

snowflakes drifting

to bare branches

.

.

blossom haze…

how weary I feel after

winter

.

.

For Frank Tassone’s Haikai Challenge – blossom haze – (hanagumori). In response, I compare the skies of blossom time to the snow-filled skies here, just a few days ago. (Cherry blossoms are expected to bloom in Toronto next weekend.) The second poem (and perhaps the first) addresses another kind of spring haze.

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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.

15 thoughts on “Frühjahrsmüdigkeit – – haiku”

    1. I finally made the connection…it feels odd to experience depletion when I can get outside and work the soil…but there is a pattern and I think it is as you say: ‘winter drains’. I discovered that in German there is actually a word for it: ‘fruhjahrsmudigkeit’.

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