Poetry Friday : January 6, 2017
Grandkids are praying for snow.
Weather forecasters are predicting snow.
January is the month for snow.
And I’m writing about snow.
Here’s my haiku for snow.
snowflakes softly drifting down
one by one by one
grandkids sledding on our hill
Then, I coupled it with a photo for a haiga.
Linda at Teacher Dance is hosting the Poetry Friday Round-Up.
Come by and join in!
I wrote and shared about our first snowfall of the year too. Thanks for teaching me about haiga. I read your response to Carol’s comment and I am off to check out Ray’s Web and the other Daily Haiga.
I’ve only begun to explore Ray’s Web. There is so much great stuff on it. Here’s his Index. It will help you navigate it more quickly.
I have heard the word haiga, but I don’t think I knew that it meant a haiku, couple with a picture. Lots of folks doing that in the #haikuforhealing community. We had about eight snow on Thursday– the kids in my district aren’t back in school yet, so lots of them were out sledding, although as Linda said, it was super cold, subzero. Teachers were sliding their way to work on Thursday and Friday!
Hi Carol! I just recently learned about haiga. Seems that like the haiku, in English, we have expanded its original characteristics (a style of Japanese painting, painted by haiku poets, accompanied by a haiku poem) to include other visuals. You might enjoy DailyHaiga with hundreds of haiga. And also Ray’s Web. A few months ago, my knowledge was limited to haiku. I’ve added haiga, tanka, haibun (from Ray’s Web), and somonka (just this week from Kelly Fineman). I’m having fun exploring these forms.
Hey Carol, I just learned of another form — senryu. Check out the definitions on Ray’s Web. Love to hear what you think.
We’ve had so much snow in Vancouver this year, a rare event! They’ve been calling it the snowpocalypse…And the rest of Canada has been laughing at us. Still, plenty of sledding opportunities for the kids!
For fun, I looked up “Vancuover” in the The Old Farmer’s Almanac: “Winter will be colder than normal, with above-normal precipitation and snowfall. The coldest periods will be in early and mid- to late December and mid- to late January, with the snowiest periods in early and mid-December and mid-January” And then I read, “[s]ummer will be warmer than normal . . .” And some day when the kids are all grown up, they’ll talk about all the snows of their childhood.
We’ve had snow too this week, and snow days for some of the kids. It was very cold, but I bet many were out on a hill somewhere. This is lovely memory captured, Alice!
Thank you. We are expecting a winter storm this weekend… I’m sure there will be sledding and snowmen.
Is there anything more fun than playing in the snow as a child? I love that you’ve preserved this scene in combination with your haiku.
Thank you, Molly!
That is beautiful to read…and to see. We had a bit of snow last night and woke up to a postcard like scene.
Thank you, Tara. I love waking up to fresh-fallen snow. Everything is so pristine and quiet… like you say, “a postcard scene.”
They look like they are having so much fun! Enjoy the snow and the poetry it inspires.
They love the snow! It has melted, but predictions are strong for 1-3 inches tomorrow.
What a sweet pairing. Yesterday’s snow has already melted here, so I’m enjoying reading your haiku.
Thank you. We’ve had one snow that melted off quickly. Now, they are predicting another one for this weekend.