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Gorghte — Haiku Spring Break '08
Published: 2008-03-01 21:40:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 1334; Favourites: 10; Downloads: 17
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March 18thfar away castles -
my princess dreams of
our future
March 17th
austere no longer
colors return
to the world
March 16th
spring fever
the heat of our passion
melts more than snow
March 15th
rain threatens
unable to dim
rainbows
March 14th
a break in the clouds
kindles the day,
matching my heart
March 13th
time dawdles
knowing I lust after
tomorrow
March 12th
wake in darkness
fighting inertia's pull
morning coffee
March 11th
amorous lovers
bound to each other
by more than rope?
March 11th
fog condensing
strangling
bad drivers
March 10th
next winter
avoid the weather
hibernate
March 9th
satisfaction
at a job well done
and a broken shovel
March 8th
What do I behold?
A fresh scent, sparkling counters
must be spring cleaning
March 7th
trapped -
cold blanket envelopes
everything
March 6th
Yawn!
a gaping mouth
empty
March 5th
crystal daggers
shatter upon impact
look out below!
March 4th
icy roads
hope of spring
slips away
March 3rd
melted snow -
new in ground pool
for my neighbor
March 2nd
bare trees
still at rest
broken clock?
March 1st
snow covered earth
reflects brilliant blue skies
lifts my spirit
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Unfortunately for me it is. I'll try to build off this though and write some more in April.
I was sidetracked by a wonderful visit from my girlfriend and was never able to get back on track.
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Oh yes please do write more this month - but real life and a visit from the g/f definately takes precident over most every other thing!
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"far away castles -
my princess dreams of
our future"
Excellent! I was guilty of doing that when I was young.
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Nice, but we're in our Mid to Late 30s
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Are you having the torrential rain that I see on the news is plaguing The States at the moment? We have been having snow, freezing rain and rain!
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Wasn't too bad, just a heavy drizzle.
Ouch. We got a couple inches last night but I think we are about down (hopefully!)
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I love the personification of clouds and time in 13 and 14 and the war with waking on the 12th -familiar. I got behind a bit too
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Thank you. I was having a bit too much fun to get on the computer so I need to find time to update.
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day 7
good excuse to stay in bed.
day 9
last line brings it home. i like how you convey the amount of hard work put in using a simple, vivid image of a broken shovel.
now, please update.
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Thank you.
I'll try, I had a visitor and was otherwise occupied
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oh no man, you stopped half-way!
you have quite a collection here. joining in may's daily haiku-writing event again?
let's encourage each other with your day 15's haiku~
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Yep. Ended up being unable to keep up.
I'll see, but depends on if some things clear up by then. Otherwise, will be too preoccupied to write well.
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i heard that it has been rescheduled to july.
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Any particular reason you are lusting for tomorrow?
I like your new additions very much.
This is a drive-by commenting! I haven't had much time to be on the computer. I have either been out or my daughter has been hogging it.
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My girlfriend is coming to visit tomorrow, so yes there is a particular reason.
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some nice work here.
suggestions:
11) why "bad" drivers?? fog is dangerous to all drivers. we think the poem could read "fog condensing / strangling / drivers."
10) Why "all" the weather, when "the weather" is "all the weather." Perhaps "all" is unnessesary? It could read "next winter / avoid the weather / hibernate."
Just some thoughts. Hope you are enjoying the bash - we certainly are!!!
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Thank you, first for reading, and 2nd for the nice critique.
Bad Drivers are the ones I want to strangle.
Good point, the all is redundant.
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The 10th sounds good to me !! and so does the 11th - they make it so much more difficult! Why the heck don't they put their lights on??!! Grr >.<
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I really like your original March 4th!
We still seem to be sharing weather. We had snow this morning. We missed the worst of those US and mainland Canada blizzards however. We have had our turn for many years past.
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Glad to here you didn't get the mess we had. Spent a lot of yesterday shoveling my driveway so I could go get groceries.
Thank you. I think either one works well, the original may have been a bit difficult to picture.
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I think slippery is a very evocative word. It's also a bit onomatapeic (I hope I got that right!).
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That is a good point.
And I got to learn something, as I had to look up onomatopoeic.
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I hope I remembered the meaning correctly!
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I had to smile at the seventh, you could quite easily change the word cold to warm with the same effect
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True.
Though snow is seldom warm 
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I can image, we don't get enough snow here to get snowed in to find out though.
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We have some huge icicles hanging from the eaves of our garage - I eyeball them very carefully when I walk by.
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Good choice, mine are all shattered all over the ground around my house and garage.
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hmm. Maybe I tried to hard to avoid mentioning the ice storm we had today.
How about
icy roads
hope of spring
slips away
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It was sad, going from 60s one day to ice storm the next.
Today, the snow just won't stop!
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The rewrite is a beauty, Brian.
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1- The blue in the snow makes you look up- double meaning, cool
You folks are having Spring and I still have winter. Nice beginning- can't wait to see more!
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Um, I wish we were having spring. 1 day does not a spring make. And the weather punished us for it today.
Freezing rain, ugh. Chipped Ice off my car before I could drive home from work.
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Thursday morning it is supposed to be 17 below zero here. This winter has been a total bitch and she won't go away. . . I hear ya
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Ouch. Time to stay in, build a fire and snuggle up!
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I am going to go out and check to see if the tree clocks are set right. I am very impatient. Sleet and snow are falling right now.
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They both capture aspects of winter that I can relate to up here in the frozen north.
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Transition months like March are so interesting. You can see glimpses of what is to come, but are always reminded of what is here.
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We are in transition. One day it's nice and the next is nasty. Today is pretty nasty since rain and snow we had yesterday is now frozen slush today and very slippery.
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60s here today. Snow all melting.
However, rain turning to snow over night with tomorrow near freezing again, just so we don't forget
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Thank you. I'm not sure it came across like I wanted, but should at least make people think.
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That's the beauty of haiku--making people think. Readers interaction with the haiku and come up with their own interpretations and see the beauty of the "thingness" of things.
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ah, so true. and wonderfully put.
In Japanese a single phrase is used to express this: "mono no aware."
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