HERE are again some haiku of my own making. The syllable count is as far from perfect as the haiku themselves.
These haiku have been written during the Spring of 2017, which has been exceptionally cold in Finland. We had snow falling on June 1st!
April snow
immensely white
– Must squint
A finch hits
the living room window
– a second time
A May breeze
moves the pine tops
lets the sunshine in
The Sun emerges,
glitters in puddles of
just melted snow
The Sun gleams
through a girl’s skirt
– My eye lingers
A lonely curlew
cries over the medow
seeking love
At half past five
a lark wakes me up
– I don’t mind
The Sun rises
long before me
like the birds
Sparrows discuss
in the hawthorn bushes
without tea
A flycatcher
on the fence waits for
Summer’s first fly
Bumblebees
gather around crocuses
and horsedung
Cat chases
squirrel up a shadbush
– dare not follow
A pair of doves
on the streetlight wire
grooming in rain
Sound of the wind
Sad hoot of a dove
in the last light
At midnight,
cold rain, cold sorrow
no moonlight
A cold drizzle
melts the last patches
of Winter’s snow
Midnight rain
melts the last snow
– Anemone buds
On the lawn
still brown after Winter
a wagtail dances
One by one
spots of snow vanish
– Spring wind
Though last snow
lingers under the firs
finches rejoice
The last snowman
dirty under the May sun
still stands
Budding leaves
shiver in the birches
– Snow in June
Futoi yatsu 