Haiku for the twelve months of the year
from around the world.
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Poet: Florence Vilen Region: The Baltic Coast, Sweden |
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January |
Shoveling snow your back may not respond to children's games |
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February |
On solid water, snow swept away by winds, long distance skating |
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March |
Noon-day thaw at sunset turned to ice, March is melt-and-freeze |
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April |
So long in the dark - in April swelling buds proclaim their colour |
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May |
All the shades of plum, bird-cherry, pear, sloe: white-blossom May |
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June |
Midsummer Night just a deeper twilight between dusk and dawn |
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July |
Dancing with gulls among ten thousand islands water-craft freedom |
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August |
Crayfish party, above songs and bright lanterns the stars returning |
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September |
Turn of the year confirmed by stiff grasses, an early night frost |
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October |
Gather and preserve against months of darkness St Bridget's Summer Swedish equivalent to Indian Summer, but much earlier, around 7th October, the day of the Swedish Saint Birgitta, often called Bridget in English. |
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November |
Night in the morning, night in the early evening, long-night November |
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December |
In the blackest morning with candles in her hair white-robed Lucia St. Lucia's day is 13th December and the celebration is a vital modern tradition in Sweden. |
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