Archive for personification
May 5, 2011 at 8:49 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Trees, Weather, Wind and tagged: breeze, haiku, metaphor, personification, poem, pollen, postaday2011, skirt, spring, tree, willow, wind
A fresh gust of wind
Lifts the weeping willow’s skirt
Swirling green pollen.
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April 12, 2011 at 12:51 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Leaves, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Rain, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Trees, Water, Weather and tagged: haiku, juggle, leaf, leaves, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, poem, postaday2011, rain, raindrop, stem, twig
Droplets slide down stems
Plash and splash from twig to twig
Leaflets juggle rain.
For J.
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April 3, 2011 at 3:47 pm · Filed under Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Trees, Water and tagged: color, green, haiku, metaphor, personification, poem, postaday2011, spring, stream, tree, water, willow
Willows veiled in green
Dangle fingers in the stream
Springtime reverie.
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April 2, 2011 at 12:47 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Morning, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Spring, Time of Day, Time of Year and tagged: bird, blackbird, haiku, marsh, morning, personification, poem, postaday2011, red-winged blackbird, song
Red-winged blackbirds call
Trilling, thrilling “o-ka-lee”
Waking up the marsh.
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March 20, 2011 at 12:20 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Celestial, Haiku, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Stars, Time of Year and tagged: dance, equinox, haiku, personification, planet, poem, postaday2011, spring, stars
Stars and planets dance
Into perfect alignment
Vernal equinox.
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March 11, 2011 at 11:07 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Celestial, Flowers, Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Sun, Time of Year and tagged: color, flower, haiku, pansies, personification, poem, postaday2011, purple, spring
First flowers of spring
Pansies raise purple faces
Squinting at the sun.
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March 5, 2011 at 11:44 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Trees, Weather, Wind, Winter and tagged: haiku, personification, poem, postaday2011, spring, tree, wind, winter
A late-winter wind
Tries to shake the trees awake
The air smells like spring.
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February 27, 2011 at 8:20 pm · Filed under Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Transportation, Trees, Winter and tagged: color, drive, green, haiku, leaves, metaphor, north, personification, poem, postaday2011, tree
Another long drive
Back north into the winter
Trees shed veils of green.
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February 26, 2011 at 3:48 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Climate, Cold, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Snow, Time of Year, Transportation, Winter and tagged: cold, earth, haiku, metaphor, personification, poem, postaday2011, snow, south, spring, thaw, winter
On a long drive south
The earth sheds a coat of snow
Every hundred miles.
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February 22, 2011 at 6:21 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Celestial, Evening, Haiku, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Sun, Time of Day, Time of Year, Winter and tagged: color, haiku, mauve, peach, personification, poem, postaday2011, sky, spring, sunset, turquoise, winter
Turquoise, peach and mauve
The sky tries on spring colors
Pale winter sunset.
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A Haiku Each Day 