Backyard Haiku Week #1

My goal is to write one haiku per day this year, starting on the day before the inauguration. It is meant to be both inspiration and distraction. We’ll see how long it lasts.

Unable to choose

Between rain and snow, the sky

Darkens now, and waits

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Luminous, bright moon

Woke me early to show off

Shadows in new snow

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Just for a moment,

Sunlight turns icy branches

into strands of gold

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How do I explain

The pleasure of seeing small

Bird tracks in the snow?

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Hard work for the birds

To wrestle seeds from dried cones

now covered in snow

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A small bird calls us

To melt the snow for her bath.

Wait for the sun, dear wren!