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 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 has seemed even stronger the past years after the pandemic. As the world re-awoke from lockdowns, parks were again full of people having BBQs in the sun and the sound of children laughing.
There is a profound lesson in the hope of spring. I think we as a species can learn a lesson from natures latest attempt to wipe us from the face of the earth.
Just as plants die in the winter only to emerge with new life from the humus of autumn's decay, maybe we can emerge from the decay of the pandemic with new life, new ways of doing things and possibly build a better society? Maybe all that is a dream.
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
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.
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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