No Ke Me: an .@ImageCurve #haibun for #dversepoets

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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15 responses to “No Ke Me: an .@ImageCurve #haibun for #dversepoets”

  1. Victoria C. Slotto Avatar

    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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    1. Frank J. Tassone Avatar

      😆 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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      1. Victoria C. Slotto Avatar

        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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  2. Gospel Isosceles Avatar

    The play of nature’s parts here is so dynamic and in so few words! I love that photo too.

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  3. rothpoetry Avatar

    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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  4. Margaret Elizabeth Bednar Avatar

    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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    1. Frank J. Tassone Avatar

      Thanks, Margaret! 😀

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  5. kanzensakura Avatar

    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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  6. sarahsouthwest Avatar

    I love the sparseness of this piece. Classy.

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  7. Jane Dougherty Avatar

    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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  8. Singledust Avatar

    such eloquence with brevity of words but generous with sensory stimulation, beautiful haibun

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  9. Frank Hubeny Avatar

    Nice alternation between sun and rain.

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  10. Mary (tqhousecat) Avatar

    And tomorrow it may all be different. Lovely haibun!

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  11. Björn Rudberg (brudberg) Avatar

    The fickleness of nature… the maple have to wait I guess… love it

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