Haiku for the twelve months of the year
from around the world.
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Poet: Kirsty Karkow Region: Maine, New England Coast, USA |
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January |
skiing an occasional crack in ocean ice |
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February |
Ground Hog Day -- strewing poppy seeds on dirty snow |
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March |
ice break-up heavy snow covers her granite breasts |
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April |
an inchworm on a fiddlehead fern robin's shadow |
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May |
blackflies she lifts her veil to count lettuce seeds |
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June |
Maine postcard high above a stone wall blue Lupines |
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July |
sudden fog two white sailboats racing home |
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August |
tourist attraction - 'fresh wild blueberries for sale' on every corner |
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September |
school -- shuttered cottages line the shore |
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October |
red maples -- people from away view the foliage |
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November |
hunting season -- the north woods hike postponed |
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December |
snow shoes -- scent of woodsmoke and balsam |
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