Fickle Weather
A gray canopy scatters in a sudden wind. Sunlight bathes the parched grass in radiance it no longer needs.
A moment later, one last cloudbank eclipses the sun.
budding Maple
yearning
for warmer days
more by FRANK J. TASSONE
photograph by Sam X
first published in Image Curve, March 17, 2016
for dVerse Haibun Monday–No Ke Me, Tree buds. Hosted by Victoria
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As always, your haikai are perfect. I think I see a familiar theme here that I’m hoping to write to in the next couple of days. I think you are in the Northeast where the weather is confusing those poor trees.
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😆 I am indeed in the northeast—35 miles northwest of New York City as the crow flies. We’re expecting 8-12 inches of snow on Wednesday! 😆
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Yikes. I have a haibun ready to post for you tomorrow afternoon. Golfing in the morning. (Sorry to bring up the weather comparison, if obliquely.)
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The play of nature’s parts here is so dynamic and in so few words! I love that photo too.
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The weather is a joker!! Tells buds to come on out …. then dumps snow and cold on them! You described it well…. Our red maples are coming out already in NC!
dwight
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The haiku is so perfect for fickle late winter / early spring weather – one really can’t trust the first warm days – but the plants and birds always do. Wonderful words.
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Thanks, Margaret! 😀
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The maples are still in hiding here but the flowering trees and shrubs are blooming or getting ready to bloom. You guys with your wind and snow and is with our game force winds – 29f tonight. Spring is so fickle as your haibun and haiku so succinctly say. I should have known not to trust fickle spring!
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I love the sparseness of this piece. Classy.
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Thanks! 😀
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Spring is a fickle season, sun and cloud and lots of rain. Sounds as though you had a fickle winter too!
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such eloquence with brevity of words but generous with sensory stimulation, beautiful haibun
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Nice alternation between sun and rain.
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And tomorrow it may all be different. Lovely haibun!
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The fickleness of nature… the maple have to wait I guess… love it
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