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Spring
(haiku)
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wings flutter gently
spring breeze bends full flowered stems
meadow dance begins
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Summer
(haiku)
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green leaf on blue pond
turns in golden summer sun
red bird softly sings
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Fall
(haiku)
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stalks lie down in fields
arbors burst with ripened grape
fall is on the land
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Winter
(haiku)
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coarse lands cloaked in white
lakes bejeweled in crystal
winter’s dressing hand
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rob kistner © 2007
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Beautiful expressions of the seasons. I like the winter one the best.
Rose
xo
Rose –
Thank you for your kind words.
i love the fall one. the stalks lying down is a hauntingly beautiful vision
Rax –
Thank you!
I have always found Fall to be an enchanted time of the year — my favorite season.
Your web sites are rich. I enjoyed thinking of a suite of Haiku, which on opening, unleashes the seasons. To me, Winter is the gem of this quartet. But all were enjoyed.
Peace,
L&T
L&T –
Thank you… 😉
I’m pleased you found this suite enjoyable!
Beautiful collage to match the poems!
Linda –
Thank you… I’m pleased you enjoyed it. 😉
I thoroughly enjoy creating a collage to visually tell the story of the poem it accompanies. I always try to capture a coherent theme in each collage.
Hi Rob
Thanks for linking to these in Read Write POem. I like the summer one best and the collage is wonderful!
You are most welcome Juliet. Thank you for stopping by, and for your kind words.
“Seasons” is an archived piece I’d written which I enjoyed sharing under the topic here. Besides each of the four seasonal haiku being in strict 5/7/5, “Summer” also incorporates the most elements found in more traditional haiku: • a season, • a natural object (leaf), • a living creature (bird), • an action (turning/singing), • and color (green, blue, gold, and red).
I really like the direction in which the new RWP is heading. Thank you for being a proactive part of this growth…
…rob
Nice line: “meadow dance begins”
Thank you Frank… 🙂
That’s a colourful collage, Rob, beautiful! and I enjoyed the stroll through the seasons. I especially liked the colours in this one:
‘green leaf on blue pond
turns in golden summer sun
red bird softly sings’
and the way the haiku turns on the word ‘turns’!
Thank you for the kind compliment on the collage. It is 30″ x 75″ and hangs in a rosewood frame in my office.
Glad you liked it, the entire suite was fun and a bit challenging to create it well. As you do, I especially like the summer haiku as well – it had all the major parts of a good haiku.
It had four colors, a season, water, wildlife, and a song, it had motion, gold, and a planet. It was fun to write. The entire syite was fun…:-)
Soft rhyming in the first two (begins/sings) and hard rhyming in the last two (land/hand) is, first of all, lovely, and ties the suite together cohesively. It also divides the two seasons into two groupings, I have always thought of spring and summer as a young rambunctious bothers, and Fall and Winter as beautiful quiet sisters. So nice one wears a jewels on her hand. ???? ???? ???? ??
I like the little brother big sister vision, very cool Lona. I am impressed you picked up on the subtle rhyme, very observant… 🙂
Think I’ll break out the Vivaldi
If I ever begin doing my online readings agai, I will have to have Vivaldi’s “Seasons” whispering tastefully as a backdrop… 😉
you’ve honored each season with your suite and the collage is gorgeous! i do collage but only 5×8 cards so far. a lot of work went into yours!
Thank you Jade, collages are great fun! I also create cylindrical 3D mixed-media pieces called Serenity Totems.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/SerenityTotemsStudio
All seasons come with their own voice
Each vividly unique… 🙂