Winter / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary

Featuring haiku written for the #HaikuSeed winter

spring buds pop their heads, february trickery,
winter snaps, not yet!

winter flurries
the rush to put on
tiny boots and mittens

– Rhonda, @RhondaLBrown2

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Age / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary

Featuring three haiku written for the #HaikuSeed age

care home singalong
the hum of forgotten words
fade

– Marilyn Ward, @deer_ward

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Summer / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary

Featuring this brilliant haiku written for the #HaikuSeed summer

scorching summer noon
a young tree trying to rest
in its own shadow

– Sarita Talwai, @TalwaiSarita

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House Plants / #HaikuSeed / Feature with Commentary

Featuring haiku written for the #HaikuSeed house plants

a new book
on house plants…
recently widowed

house plants
dying by the window
living on the wall

– C. X. Turner (Luci), @lover__poetic

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Burning / #HaikuSeed / Feature with Commentary

Featuring these wonderful haiku written for the #HaikuSeed burning

burning memories
– sake, rice, companions
flying to the moon

crisp fall air
piles of leaves
colors burning

– Linda, @LinderLeeL

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Mountain / #HaikuSeed / Feature with Commentary

Featuring haiku written for the #HaikuSeed mountain

winter clouds
the mountain I didn’t climb
last summer

again climbing yesterday’s mountain

– Hege A. J. Lepri, @hegelincanada

– Paul M, @pmll3r

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Kimono / #HaikuSeed / Feature

Featuring haiku written for the #HaikuSeed kimono

peony blossoms
her youth flowering
in a silk kimono

departing geese
the flutter of her kimono
in the breeze

– Marilyn Ward, @deer_ward

– Arvinder Kaur / @arvinder8

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Ripe / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary

Featuring haiku written for the #HaikuSeed ripe

not
yet
ripe

I
leave
the
poem

h
a
n
g
i
n
g

– Alex Fyffe / @AsurasHaiku

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Sparrow / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary

Featuring haiku written for the #HaikuSeed sparrow

one sparrow —
how big the sky
can be

a pause in the rain
the meadow flooded
with sparrow song

– Luci, @lover__poetic

– Shane Pruett, @HaikuMyBrew

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Heat / #HaikuSeed / Feature With Commentary

Featuring two haiku written for the #HaikuSeed heat

summer heat
barefoot dancing
with mosquitoes

soaking heat …
I am the fly’s
sip of water

– Richard Barnes / @NaumaddicArts

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