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vernal equinox: reprise again

By David A. Giacalone

One thing about the seasons, we can count on them returning. As strange as it seems to have already Sprung Forward into daylight savings time, spring (the vernal equinox) arrives around 1:48 EDT this morning. Noting that we have thunderstorms, along with a mix of rain and snow due overnight here in Schenectady, and in the spirit of saving energy, here is a reprise of a very satisfying posting from March 20, 2007, which welcomes spring with haiku and senryu. May you be renewed and blossom in the new season. [Note: no snowmen were injured in the production of this weblog post.]

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the lawn crunches
Spring?s first bocce match
postponed

………… Haiga: poem by david giacalone/ dagosan; photo by Arthur Giacalone - Simply Haiku haiga (Vol. 5: 1, 2007)

equinoxically yours [first posted March 20, 2007]

Despite the forecast for record low temperatures tonight ? or, maybe because of it ? the f/k/a Gang needs to celebrate the Spring (Vernal) Equinox with a few haiku from some of our Honored Guest friends.

expecting a night
of spring?
night frost

to one side
of my paper lantern?
spring?s first dawn

half of it
is flitting snow?
spring rain

?……..?? by Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue (500 more on spring)

spring equinox
moonshadow deepens
the creek

spring-like day
the cat grapples
with a catnip bird

spring longing
the man
in the three-quarter moon

?? by carolyn hall – ?spring-like day? - The Heron?s Nest (2004)
?spring equinox? - The Heron?s Nest (2000)
?spring longing? - frogpond XXVIII: 1

Full post as published by f/k/a . . . on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).