Seasons

  • Suite of four haiku reflecting the seasons…

  • collage entitled “Four Seasons” by: rob kistner © 2007

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    Seasons

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    Spring

    (haiku)

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    wings flutter gently

    spring breeze bends full flowered stems

    meadow dance begins

    ~ ~ ~

     

    Summer

    (haiku)

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    green leaf on blue pond

    turns in golden summer sun

    red bird softly sings

    ~ ~ ~

     

    Fall

    (haiku)

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    stalks lie down in fields

    arbors burst with ripened grape

    fall is on the land

    ~ ~ ~

     

    Winter

    (haiku)

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    coarse lands cloaked in white

    lakes bejeweled in crystal

    winter’s dressing hand

    ~ ~ ~

     

    rob kistner © 2007

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  • 23 thoughts on “Seasons”

    1. Rax

      Thank you!

      I have always found Fall to be an enchanted time of the year — my favorite season.

    2. 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

    3. 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.

      1. 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

    4. 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’!

    5. 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…:-)

    6. 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. ???? ???? ???? ??

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