Snowdrop time is long over, only "snowdrop green” is left, covering everything in great abundant swathes. Now is the time they should be dug up and replanted, preferably in the wilder reaches of gardens, on verges, in lightly wooded patches.Snowdrops will colonise everything, if left undisturbed for long enough.
I found this haiku on the back of a very mundane household shopping list, all items crossed out as purchased. All I know is that it’s mine but when or why I wrote it is a mystery.
snowdrops rising
from a bed of decay
rotting leaves
giving birth
to innocence.
I do like your haiku, phoenix from the ashes. I am so glad you are writing more frequently. My view today:
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on golden rocky hills
waking up
so gently
sleeping heather.
XO
WWW
Lovely haiku and a nice treat to find it on the back of your mundane shopping list.
ReplyDeleteDanke fuer die Schneegloeckchen!!! Ich liebe sie so sehr! :-)
ReplyDeleteAfter a fruitless home search, I wrote this:
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San Francisco Haus
Neu gestrichen und glänzend
Leisten kannst du nicht
Hi Friko - what fun to find the Haiku ... as well as know you achieved everything on your list and were able to cross them off. Love the photo of the snowdrops - they are wonderful bulbs ... so appropriate for January and February. Enjoy whatever gardening you feel like doing ... but enjoy Spring coming along ... cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteLove the sentiment! I find odd pieces of paper that I have jotted thoughts on in the most unlikely places, too.
ReplyDeleteHaiku (and their writers) fill me with awe.
ReplyDeleteHow I hope that the snowdrops I planted twenty years ago develop triffid qualities.
It's a wonderful haiku, a rediscovered treasure. Thanks for passing it along to me today. :-)
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't know that it matters what you wrote it on; fact is, you wrote it beautifully and it so tells the story!
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping my blog, it was so nice to hear from you. I love snowdrops from my younger days, we don't get them here.
ReplyDeleteLovely to see you again Friko. So few words yet so descriptive
ReplyDeleteNow you'll have us all racking our brains trying to compose short unrhymed poems
Lovely, Friko...
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ReplyDeleteI found a few snow drops in a plantation near here. They're not native, and probably escaped from the garden, but it was such a great pleasure to see a plant I've only seen in photographs from places like yours. The haiku is a fitting response, I'd say.
ReplyDeleteAs for that disembodied notation, it reminds me of finding a note made in my mother's hand on the back of an envelope she'd received in the mail. On it, she'd written, "Being disorganized is not a moral problem." I laughed, and kept it, and framed it. It's a glimpse into her life, and a good reminder for mine.
Inspired by your words
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