I'll share a picture tomorrow, I'll make a note that includes the picture and the poem. Snowdrops are a type of flower, the first sign that winter will be replaced by spring in a while.
Your haiku are so beautiful and vivid, engaging all the senses so easily! Loved reading them all!
After a lot of hard work and several rereads of your breakdown, I finally managed to write a couple of haiku, though I doubt they adhere to the rules as well as I'd like them to. Only you can tell me how well I did, haha.
Thanks a lot for this.prompt, Namratha. I love reading the haiku, have subscribed to so many haiku journals. But I've been feraful of attempting it, don't know why. This prompt will probably help me to break that inhibition. Always love your marigold. Can't get the orange imagery off my mind every time I read it.
A smile—
in middle winter
the scent of spring.
Aww. Love this... a smile can feel like that. Thank you for this beautiful haiku
Hope it made you smile!
:)
Rain drops fall
Snowdrops rise up
through crispy dead leaves
Thank you for the haiku, Angela. Can you tell me more about the 'snowdrops rise up'? I feel like I am missing the context here.
I'll share a picture tomorrow, I'll make a note that includes the picture and the poem. Snowdrops are a type of flower, the first sign that winter will be replaced by spring in a while.
Oh. I just looked up the flower. Thank you for the context. That is so beautiful.. rising through the crispy dead leaves... lovely haiku!
Namratha as promised: https://open.substack.com/pub/angelavanson/p/snowdrops?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=51dmgl
I added text about the writing process. The text is a lot longer than the haiku ;)
Hi Namratha,
Your haiku are so beautiful and vivid, engaging all the senses so easily! Loved reading them all!
After a lot of hard work and several rereads of your breakdown, I finally managed to write a couple of haiku, though I doubt they adhere to the rules as well as I'd like them to. Only you can tell me how well I did, haha.
https://open.substack.com/pub/leesplash/p/centuries-past-poetic-adventure-3
Okay, I tried, Namratha. I hope some of it works, but glad to start.
https://soniadogra.com/2025/02/13/nature-and-poetry-learning-the-haiku/
Thanks a lot for this.prompt, Namratha. I love reading the haiku, have subscribed to so many haiku journals. But I've been feraful of attempting it, don't know why. This prompt will probably help me to break that inhibition. Always love your marigold. Can't get the orange imagery off my mind every time I read it.
Thank you, Sonia. Glad it is going to be of help😊
Thanks. This gives me lots to think about.
Would love to read your haiku, if you write one.
Snow falls.
Erases hard edges
Warm blanket.
I like the idea of how the falling snow can erase hard edges.
I love the marigold and the bulbul, especially. The "haiku" I write are probably senryu or some other miscellaneous category :)
Thanks Rajani:)
Would love to read your senryu