The sparrow lingers
on the gatepost by spring shoots -
gobbling a worm.
Spring means renewal and the reincarnation of the autumns dead matter. What I most love about spring is that you can see, hear and smell the renewal all around you. Hear that awakening in the renewed dawn chorus of birdsong, smell it in the first blooms bursting with pollen and see it all around in the growth of evergreen trees.
It almost seems as if life infuses everything in nature, and this bleeds into the human world with that spring fever feeling. Lol, everything is horny, and mating calls can be heard far and wide, from the woods to the city streets on a Saturday night.
Spring fever seems even stronger this year with signs of the pandemic waning. Shops, restaurants and pubs are re-opening here in the UK. The streets are filling up with pedestrians again, my local park is full with people having BBQ in the sun and the sound of children laughing joins that of the birdsong serenading a new beginning.
It seems that hope has returned with the advent of spring and 'hopefully' we as a species can learn a lesson from natures latest attempt to wipe us from the face of the earth.
The haiku in this post attempts to capture what Japanese Haiku masters call Kigo (季語):
an explicit or implicit reference to a season, that defines the time of the year in which the haiku is composed.
Along with Karumi (軽み):
beauty in simplicity; poetic beauty reflected in its simplicity, free from preconceptions and moral judgment.
I have decided to challenge myself for a month to post a daily Haiku on Hive. Each week will have a different theme based on a picture prompt.
This week's broad theme is Reflection on Nature.
To read more about the aesthetics of true haiku, and the difference between haiku and senryu, please check out my post: Haiku Vs Senryu - The Aesthetics of Form
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