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Seasons | A Collection of Haiku Poetry

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This is a collection of haiku celebrates our annual seasonal changes as well as the seasons of our lives. They're set up 6 haiku to a page... both published & unpublished in Haiku poetry journals. The themes are the seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, W...

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Spring Haiku | Chapter 2 | Startle

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by Crimson-n-Clover

by Crimson-n-Clover

                                    
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                          lily petals
kiss cold, marble headstone —
closer than we

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                          surprise showers
nature adds brush strokes
to painter's canvass

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                          still hiding—
under the lilac thicket . . . 
a lavender vale

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                          thaw . . .
rain boots step over
the bloated worms

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                          cabin fever
an 'illegal' game of catch —
indoors

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                          June snow flurries  —
hanging gardens uptown,
window boxes downtown

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