Today is not only Poetry Friday, but it’s also the last day of March. I’ve been trying to write short poems, mostly haiku, as part of my daily writing routine. It’s been fun finding places where a poem is hiding, waiting to be written. Sometimes it’s just everyday things, like cooking or something new I experience, but often I turn to nature where poems are easy to find. I’m closing out the month with three haiku inspired by the natural world.
Greeting (from 3/6)
early morning
full moon glows through bare-branched trees
late winter wonder
Draft, 2023RoseCappelli
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Saving Daylight (from 3/12)
sun paints the sky pink
moon lingers for one last look
time springs forward
Draft, 2023RoseCappelli
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Hello Hellebores (from 3/9)
with dead leaves stripped away
hellebores lift their faces
celebrating spring
Draft, 2023RoseCappelli
Mary Lee has the round up today at A(nother) Year of Reading. Be sure to stop by for lots of poetry goodness. I’m hoping to find inspiration for an April poetry project!
Imagine the Possibilities 
Rose,
These are sweet images of personification in your haiku: the moon lingering and the hellebores lifting their faces. Beautiful!
I’m sure you will find inspiration for at least one poetry project. You are welcome to join us at Ethical ELA’s #verselove. The community is amazing.
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Thanks, Denise.
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You make your haiku look so easy! I’m especially loving “Hello Hellebores.” I bought 5 more this spring — all different — because they are one plant I can have in the front yard that the deer won’t eat! AND they’re beautiful and hopeful.
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During the pandemic, a friend of mine posted some pictures of the hellebores in her garden. Like you say, they struck me with hope. I’ve been planting some every year since. Thanks, Mary Lee.
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I like how you say “finding places where a poem is hiding, waiting to be written”–it fits nicely with that quote at Tabatha’s blog: “Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.” Your editing is very fine, Rose!
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Thanks, Heidi!
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Rose, I’m such a fan of the moon and moon poems, and yours are lovely! But that last poem… Something about stripping away the old and the dead. It really captures something I’m feeling about spring this year. Thank you!
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I love small snapshot of life, like the ones you shared. The middle one, with time springing forward in the last line, felt so dramatic, and daylight savings time is like that to me.
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Ooh, the hellebores!! I hope to grow those someday – I love to see them lift their wee faces. Also really love the idea of a moon with a face as well, lingering for one last look… These are beautiful.
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I turned fifty in early March and counted down toward it over a month in haiku. Here’s what I came away with: 28 haiku, the realisation that my brain is indeed a muscle-like thing and can be trained to perform in quicker and more refined ways, and a month of fun even before the celebrations began.
Enjoy your month! I’m doing triolet for National Poetry Month (but not a triolet a day as I’m finding it so much harder to write than haiku).
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I was thinking of writing triolets for April, too! I really enjoy that form. But today I decided to return to a PB idea I started twice before that I wish could be written as a collection of verse. Going to try a different angle and see what happens just for fun.
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That sounds promising! And fun. Good luck, good luck, here’s to the new angle!
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I loved that moon & that you wrote two poems about it, Rose. Taking time to really look at something & capture it in words is a special thing, & when you read them, I imagine you will recall that time perfectly. I don’t grow hellebores so love the poem & picture, too. We have only green sprouts up right now. Hoping!
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Love these, Rose! I really love thinking about “Hello Hellebores!” I should say hello to mine every time I walk by.
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Lovely…especially that last look by moon. I agree that poems from nature are easy–and fun.
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We just changed our clocks last weekend (much later than the US) so your “sky pink…moon lingers” haiku is especially timely for me, Rose. But all three are tiny gems. 🙂
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I love Saving Daylight – the haiku and especially the title. And your words remind me how powerful the message when we are spare in text.
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“Poems are easy to find” in nature, Rose! You’ve found three beauties. I love the “late winter wonder” of the moon.
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