2026-03-17 22:27:40
A park ranger told
Us once that he'd only not
Seen snow in August.
#DailyHaikuPrompt - Late Snow
#haiku
A park ranger told
Us once that he'd only not
Seen snow in August.
#DailyHaikuPrompt - Late Snow
#haiku
The high trends upward
Celsius or Fahrenheit
Spring is on its way.
#dailyhaikuprompt - high
#haiku
#poem
We woke early to
Ski cross-country. Our legs ache.
Oh the endorphins!
#DailyHaikuPrompt
Spending the nest egg
I'm thinking of flying south
To lead the birds home.
#dailyhaikuprompt - egg
#haiku
#poem
It’s hard to set down
A candle burned at both ends
But harder to hold.
#dailyhaikuprompt - candle
#haiku
#poem
Wind whips, snow falls still.
Sprouts hunker down, buds blossom
Only in our dreams.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #Bloom #haiku
Though winter may rage
And beat against my window
I am snug inside.
#dailyhaikuprompt - rage
#haiku
#poem
This morning I found
A love note on my pillow:
Eggs, milk, butter, cheese.
#dailyhaikuprompt - note
#haiku
#poem
January thaw
Yearly tradition of hope
For an early Spring.
#dailyhaikuprompt - thaw
#haiku
#poem
Others continue to
Work but I'm off until the
Cold of December.
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt - plow
With love in your heart
Take a sacred pilgrimage
To the Pastry Shop.
#dailyhaikuprompt - pilgrimage
#haiku
#poem
February thaws
March is waiting in the wings
With a mighty wind.
#dailyhaikuprompt - wind
#haiku
#poem
It's only a cold
Such coughing dripping aching
But it's just a cold.
#dailyhaikuprompt - cold
#haiku
#poem
Cobra chickens leave
Gifts for unwary walkers,
Screaming rage, they chase.
#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt - geese
Remnant of summer
Winter grass is a present
Reminder of spring.
#dailyhaikuprompt - winter grass
#haiku
#poem
Those evergreen days
When ships that needed turning
Got our attention.
#dailyhaikuprompt - evergreen
#haiku
#poem
A tadpole grows legs
And transmutes tail into frog
Eventually.
#dailyhaikuprompt - tadpole
#haiku
#poem
That's it for this year
We say each time there's late snow
Hoping it's the last.
#dailyhaikuprompt - late snow
#haiku
#poem
Fleet as Mercury
Sable in its winter coat
Huddles with its kin.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sable
#haiku
#poem
Lonely as a cloud
Floating high o'er vales and hills
And so I wandered.
#dailyhaikuprompt - cloud
#haiku
#poem
Lay dormant under
Banks of snow. In a few months,
Seeds will wake and grow.
#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt - seed
Streaks of violet
Inspire a little caution
For the day to come.
#dailyhaikuprompt - violet
#haiku
#poem
An impromptu creek
Sprung from snowy headwaters
Seeks a corner drain.
#dailyhaikuprompt - creek
#haiku
#poem
This lunar new year
One spring lantern lights the way
To all our futures.
#dailyhaikuprompt - spring lantern
#haiku
#poem
Uncollected leaves
Steeping in slumping snow banks
Make Meltwater Soup.
#dailyhaikuprompt - soup
#haiku
#poem
The morning erupts
In a flurry of motion
Not a day of rest.
#dailyhaikuprompt - flurry
#haiku
#poem
While it is dark now
It's just a matter of time
Until a new dawn.
#dailyhaikuprompt - time
#haiku
#poem
Soft velvet shadows
Wolf moon on fresh fallen snow
A hopeful new year.
#dailyhaikuprompt - wolf moon
#haiku
#poem
North wind blowing fierce
Forms ice hard against the glass
Frost on frost on frost.
#dailyhaikuprompt - north wind
#haiku
#poem
What now, Ulysses?
We shall revere and rejoice
Our Leopold Bloom.
#dailyhaikuprompt - bloom
#haiku
#poem
Field exercises
In malicious compliance
May be in order.
#dailyhaikuprompt - field
#haiku
#poem
Simple Sabotage
I must mend my ways
Stop swearing at holey socks
Good gosh darn 'em all.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mend
#haiku
#poem
The warmth of a smile
Does nothing to rectify
An empty promise.
#dailyhaikuprompt - warmth
#haiku
#poem
Pheasant in the snow
Rethinking its life choices
About migration.
#dailyhaikuprompt - pheasant
#haiku
#poem
Hearty barley soup
To nourish the flagging soul
Weary of winter.
#dailyhaikuprompt - barley
#haiku
#poem
Bare necessities
For trees to bear any fruit
Sun, soil, air, water.
#dailyhaikuprompt - bear
#haiku
#poem
In the snowy grove
Undercover greenery
Waiting to spring forth.
#dailyhaikuprompt - grove
#haiku
#poem
Time rolls like a wheel
A new year starts each morning
And ends when we do.
#dailyhaikuprompt - new year
#haiku
#poem
Timewheel
Precipitation?
Rain would be a welcome change
No need to shovel.
#dailyhaikuprompt - rain
#haiku
#poem
Frozen foam on sand
The plover patrols the shore
Trawling for tidbits.
#dailyhaikuprompt - plover
#haiku
#poem
A German rabbit
Came to visit this morning
Guten tag mein hare.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hare
#haiku
#poem
Everything's better
Since I traded Twittering
For the Fediverse.
#dailyhaikuprompt - twittering
#haiku
#poem
That seam is complete
Time to replenish the thread
Start stitching the next.
#dailyhaikuprompt - thread
#haiku
#poem
A glimmer of hope
Shines wherever kindnesses
Pass between strangers.
#dailyhaikuprompt - glimmer
#haiku
#poem
Perhaps a clear sky
On the last day of this year
Is a good omen.
#dailyhaikuprompt - clear sky
#haiku
#poem
Dripping icicles
Reach toward the frozen earth
Seeking connection.
#dailyhaikuprompt - icicles
#haiku
#poem
Tho' a noble beast
A horse may still kick or bite
If feeling aggrieved.
#dailyhaikuprompt - horse
#haiku
#poem
Mistaking a quince
For a pear is an error
You make only once.
#dailyhaikuprompt - quince
#haiku
#poem
It's too cold for snow
And yet somehow freezing rain
Is on the menu.
#dailyhaikuprompt - cold
#haiku
#poem
The frog, or kenzan
Sits at the base of the vase
To hold stems upright.
#dailyhaikuprompt - frog
#haiku
#poem
The golden sun says
It's time to make yellow snow
Pivot to green grass.
#dailyhaikuprompt - yellow
#haiku
#poem
How does that chestnut
Roasting on an open fire
Make the season bright?
#dailyhaikuprompt - chestnut
#haiku
#poem
It's bean soup, he said
I can see that, she replied,
But what is it now?
#dailyhaikuprompt - bean soup
#haiku
#poem
Shoreline at low tide
I take my mood from seeing
The wreckage revealed.
#dailyhaikuprompt - low tide
#haiku
#poem
Blackbird on barbed wire
Watching for a meal below
Or something shiny.
#dailyhaikuprompt - blackbird
#haiku
#poem
Feathery hoarfrost
Needles out from cold branches
Waving to the sun.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hoarfrost
#haiku
#poem
Though snoring gently
The bear is aware enough
To ignore skiers.
#dailyhaikuprompt - bear
#haiku
#poem
Little red robin
Worms his way north each summer
As the early bird.
#dailyhaikuprompt - robin
#haiku
#poem
An evening of mirth
A night of indigestion
A morning of peace.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mirth
#haiku
#poem
Starved of oxygen
Burned wood turns into charcoal
To draw conclusions.
#dailyhaikuprompt - charcoal
#haiku
#poem
New seed catalogue
Abundant fecundity
Colour promises.
#dailyhaikuprompt - seed
#haiku
#poem
Solitary path
A thousand lonely people
Walking single file.
#dailyhaikuprompt - lonely
#haiku
#poem
Night before Christmas
When you hardly sleep at all
Dreaming of stockings.
#dailyhaikuprompt - night
#haiku
#poem
Flurries overnight
A late smattering of snow
Hiding new growth.
#dailyhaikuprompt - late
#haiku
#poem
Prep for a blizzard
Get out the can opener
And the kerosene.
#dailyhaikuprompt - blizzard
#haiku
#poem
Now it's Christmas Eve
One more sleep 'til Santa comes
Time to hit the hay.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hay
#haiku
#poem
What a brave new day
That has such wonders in it
All for our pleasure.
#dailyhaikuprompt - day
#haiku
#poem
Observed from above
The countryside seems asleep
Under a white quilt.
#dailyhaikuprompt - quilt
#haiku
#poem
After the ice storm
Rivulets of fresh water
Rinse the dust away.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fresh water
#haiku
#poem
Commotion outside
An argument of sparrows
Squabbling over seed.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sparrow
#haiku
#poem
If you don't like it
The spring sky offers a choice
Wait a few minutes.
#dailyhaikuprompt - spring sky
#haiku
#poem
Once the primer dries
A well-applied overcoat
Makes the wall perfect.
#dailyhaikuprompt - overcoat
#haiku
#poem
A quiet moment
With a coffee in my hand
Makes the whole day right.
#dailyhaikuprompt - quiet
#haiku
#poem
Light the solstice fire
And dance as if tomorrow
The sun will return.
#dailyhaikuprompt - solstice
#haiku
#poem
One of these days, friend
One of us will be proved wrong
And one of us right.
#dailyhaikuprompt - friend
#haiku
#poem
As smoke dissipates
It leaves a faint aroma
Of something that was.
#dailyhaikuprompt - smoke
#haiku
#smoke
Between snow and hail
With no chance of freezing rain
Sleet is what you get.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sleet
#haiku
#poem
Avalanche of snow
A community of flakes
Can break up thin ice.
#dailyhaikuprompt - snow
#haiku
#poem
Winter approaches
An annual reminder
Spring will soon be here.
#dailyhaikuprompt -winter
#haiku
#poem
Solstice approaches
The long night is keen to swap
With the shortest day.
#dailyhaikuprompt - long night
#haiku
#poem
It is too muddy
To plow any fields today
Ready and waiting.
#dailyhaikuprompt - plow
#haiku
#poem
Masses of frog eggs
Like biblical angels' eyes
Watching from the pond.
#dailyhaikuprompt - frog
#haiku
#poem
The little dog laughed
About the cow and the moon
Hey diddle diddle.
#dailyhaikuprompt - moon
#haiku
#poem
Fiddlehead unfurls
Stored green energy spirals
To soak up Spring sun.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fiddlehead
#haiku
#poem
My brother in Christ
All this talk of Nirvana
Is making me Cross.
#dailyhaikuprompt - nirvana
#haiku
#poem
Well, well, Miss Wintour
All I'll say is: you gotta
Lotta Nirvana.
#dailyhaikuprompt - nirvana
#haiku
#poem
These militant geese
Staking out the gravel path
As their nesting pad.
#dailyhaikuprompt - geese
#haiku
#poem
Each sunny morning
Another catkin stretches
And sheds its fur coat.
#dailyhaikuprompt - catkin
#haiku
#poem
Having been eclipsed
New moon that once waxed above
Now waning away.
#dailyhaikuprompt - new moon
#haiku
#poem
Light in the evening
After sun throughout the day
Brings Spring's happiness.
#dailyhaikuprompt - evening
#haiku
#poem
See the wild rose bloom
Delicate fragrance with thorns
Perfectly balanced.
#dailyhaikuprompt - wild rose
#haiku
#poem
A burst of fresh air
Laden with the scent of spring
Catches me off guard.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fresh
#haiku
#poem
A tranquil jonquil
Pokes its head out of the soil
To bask in the sun.
#dailyhaikuprompt - tranquil
#haiku
#poem
Just a coupl'a buds
Hanging out in the warm sun
Shedding winter coats.
#dailyhaikuprompt - buds
#haiku
#poem
To climb our mountain
Each of us as Sisyphus
Must all act boulder.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mountain
#haiku
#poem
#365DaysOfHaiku
#OneYearOfDailyHaiku