Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We still have time to mess this up!

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

No one could have predicted…

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

“But what about the lurkers?”

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

I was promised a recession.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

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Traditionally, the season in which a haiku is written is an essential element. In fact, in Japanese, each haiku contains a particular word (called a kigo) which indicates the season. (You can find a list of some of these words online.) As with the other traditional elements of haiku, we modern western writers are less fussy about insisting on the kigo, but the seasonal cycle still plays an important part in our haiku writing.

In this post, I’ve picked haiku and photos that specifically relate to each of the four seasons. Some of them mention the season by name and others contain a kigo. When I finished collecting the haiku, I realized that I had three poems for summer and winter and only two for spring and autumn. I decided that made sense because summer and winter are the extreme seasons. They both begin with the solstice (the longest day and the longest night). The difference between light and dark is more extreme as is the temperature. Spring and autumn are the fluid seasons. They each begin with the equinox when light and dark are in balance. They are transitional seasons, carrying us from one extreme to the next.

The cycle of the seasons mimics the cycle of our own lives so we begin today with spring, the season of birth and rebirth, of flowers budding and blossoming, of leaves returning to the trees. And we end with winter, the season when nature turns inward, when vegetation seems to die and we begin and end the active part of our days in darkness.

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Lac Brome, QCMay 7, 2014

shy spring
the ferns
in prayer position

Haiku Canada Review – October 2016, Volume 1

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Lac Brome, QCMay 3, 2014

May comes up
through
last year’s leaves

On The Road - Munira - The Seasons 7
Bellingham, WAAugust 11, 2022

what we can imagine—
all the shades
of blackberry

On The Road - Munira - The Seasons 6
Bellingham, WAJuly 3, 2022

world view—
through a bite-sized hole
in a summer leaf

On The Road - Munira - The Seasons 5
Bellingham, WAJune 22, 2022

white roses
gone wild
the times we live in

On The Road - Munira - The Seasons 4
Bellingham, WANovember 17, 2020

gray skies—
so many
Novembers

New England Letters #102, November 14, 2019

On The Road - Munira - The Seasons 3
Lac Brome, QCNovember 4, 2011

autumn wind
I blow the fire
into being

Frogpond, Winter, 2014
http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.ca/feb. 22, 2017
New England Letters #100, September 15, 2019

On The Road - Munira - The Seasons 2
Lac Brome, QCJanuary 1, 2015

pine needles on snow
the lined faces
of the old ones

New England Letters #117 February 14, 2021

On The Road - Munira - The Seasons 1
Lac Brome, QCDecember 29, 2018

beech leaves cling
to winter trees
harder now to let go

On The Road - Munira - The Seasons
Seattle, WAFebruary 4, 2019

snow falling
past streetlights
the city pauses

Reader Interactions

26Comments

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    Yutsano

    I especially love the simple truth of the Seattle haiku. Also interesting since you were probably stuck when you took that picture!

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    munira

    @Yutsano: I was at my sister’s contemplating driving down to California, a trip that was postponed for several days. But it was so beautiful I didn’t mind.

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    Geminid

    @WaterGirl: Maybe Quinerly will give us some pics from her trip to Southeast Utah. She’ll travel some spectacular country, and the town of Bluff sounds neat.

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    John S Green

    Hello Munira,

    Lovely presentation, as usual. My two favorite haiku are:

    1.

    shy spring

    the ferns

    in prayer position

    2.

     

    pine needles on snow

    the lined faces

    of the old ones

     

    Cheers,

    John

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