afterwards
the comfort of two
small dogs beside me
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©️2020 Ontheland
push mower – – tanka
push mower . . .
grass clippings fly
in April breeze
my thoughts slowing
with each step
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©️2020 Ontheland
spring snow – – haiku
spring snow . . .
an apple green dirndl
around the tree
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©️2020 Ontheland
Our May of 2020 snow was almost a week ago but I want to celebrate it one more time. This also gives me an opportunity to use the word ‘dirndl’, a delightful name for a skirt which I hadn’t heard for a long time until recently when it was included in a poem by Claudia McGill.
blue jay – – haiku
blue jay
whistling from the pergola
face to face
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©️2020 Ontheland
mating season – – haibun
Oh the excitement of mating season…even from indoors our cat feels it, yawling from early dawn…the dogs notch up their leaping and bounding to greet the day and rabbits scamper everywhere.
twilight
running alongside
a doe in flight
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©️2020 Ontheland
the new normal – – monoku
With all the discussion lately about opening up economies and easing social restrictions, this one-line haiku came to mind:
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the new normal a flu-id dynamic
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©️2020 Ontheland
May moon – – haibun
Back in my twenties I wasn’t attuned to the moon and seasons as I am now. My observations, if any, were unconscious, while closer to the surface were my preoccupations with school, work, and relationships. I do have one memory though of considering seasonal patterns as I paced the long road leading to school, while taking long breaths to quell anxiety. It was May and it was snowing. I said to myself “remember this: it can snow in May” and sure enough, in 2020, the year of the extraordinary, we are expecting snow tonight.
flower moon
absorbing daffodil glow
before the snow
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©️2020 Ontheland
