It’s Poetry Friday!
Deep thinker, poem tinkerer Irene Latham is hosting with an MLK-themed post at Live Your Poem.
Today I’m sharing another haiku I wrote this summer when it was hot and I was dreaming of winter. Now it’s winter and I long for the sun! We even had sleet on Thursday. SLEET y’all! In Mississippi! My friends’ kids were begging for a snow day . . .
Freshly fallen snow
the purple crocus
springs up
by Keri Collins Lewis
Keri. I LOVE THIS! Perfect. And we had sleet here today… crazy! xo
Lovely poem, lovely photo – but sleet! Hard to imagine in my part of the world where we are in the midst of summer.
What a beautiful image and I love your use of the word “spring!”
And we’re supposed to hit 60 degrees today in CO-what a winter this has been. I hope your sleety weather disappears soon, Keri. Most times it seems that it’s us who have the crocus in the snow. Lovely thought.
I think this time of year does give us a yen for green! I asked for a terrarium for Valentine’s Day — just want to get my hands in some dirt 🙂
I can see that crocus through your poem! I like how you’ve specified a purple crocus. We’ve got at least 3 months before we see one around this neighborhood.
Beautiful haiku, Keri! My kids were really hoping for a late start here in SC on Wed., but they were disappointed when they had to get early, as usual!
I like how you describe Irene, Keri– “Deep thinker, poem tinkerer.” Very apt, I think. 🙂 Also like your hope-springing haiku. What would we do with crocuses? This has been an unusually dismal winter in Florida (so far) as well.
What a lovely poem. The weather has been crazy here as well. Those crocuses always give me such hope.
The image and words are perfectly paired to make a clear, sensory-filled statement. How wonderful that our eyes are drawn right into the visual. Strange weather patterns all over.
Oh, not time for the crocus to show itself yet here. We are just starting winter…we’ll see them come April.
Love your haiku! I am gathering up the confidence to move away from 5-7-5 and still know I’ve written haiku…
On a separate note, I like how you handled the attribution for the photo. I love it that Wikimedia Commons provides the correct attribution, but I was in such a habit of putting attribution below the photo in the caption space and its length detracted from the picture there. Well, duh. Why not put it at the end of the post?!?!
Gorgeous haiku, Keri! You capture so much in 8 words! =)
That image is simply precious – alongside your haiku, it’s sublime. 🙂 Hope the weather gets better this week!