Windstorm warnings sound
dusk to dark: tornadoes bud
down shelters
Rainwater’s morning
dawn uncovers damage done
new buds color scene
Featured original photo by C.E. Price via PIXNIO (CC0)
Written for Naturalist Weekly‘s mini-season/micro-season prompt to write a haiku or senryu that references buds or young plants—via Goff James Art, Music, Phototography, Poetry, and Quotations.
In spite of blue sky
fresh air chills our bright sunshine
wintry aggression
Poem written for today’s Japanese micro-season “fish emerge from the ice“, or “fish rise from the ice“. Today could have been a spring day, if not for the icy winds coming down across the southern plains of North America . . . a good winter day.
Featured image “ice flower” of the public domain via Hippopx.
Bright, frigid wind bites!
Smarting winter sensation
freshens perspective.
REFERENCES & FURTHER READING
Nippon.com “Bringing You Japan in Your Language”
Naturalist Weekly Micro-Season: “The Bear Retreats To Its Den”
Most people in Japan use, or are familiar with, the Western calendar (seireki), but the traditional calendar is used for official documents. The traditional Japanese calendar is based on reign periods of emperors. Each time a different emperor began rule, a new counting of the years began and the period acquired a new name.
–East West Consulting
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