(Each themed 3-lined haiku is a poem in itself)
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Hoot owl forest call
Softly heard on a work night
First time this season
–J.E.C.
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Late night return home
Keeps the car interior cool
From jumping guide rails
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Highway hawks on perch
Snow hides squeaking a la cart
Slim pickings in road kill
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His practice at night
To listen for the night sounds
Has enriched for years
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See your own vapor
Steam from the depths of our souls
Remembering time
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–Jonathan Caswell
(Each individual three-line haiku is considered a poem on its own,
despite perhaps being related to a common theme.–J.E.C.)
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(Additionally, haiku may or may not include punctuation—traditional haiku generally do not have it –J.E.C.)
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Presidents’ Day off
Waving away package trucks
Skeleton crew on
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American loss,
Long weekends not historic…
Blurred history lost!
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High snow banks turn brown
Road salt stains on pavement grey
Waiting for snow days
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Plow trucks stand idle
Except for salting road ice
No more overtime?
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Winter buds wonder
Is it time to grow and sprout?
Freeze burnt other years…!
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Swans in ponds feeding
Youngsters finally on their own
Mommas drove them off
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Easter candy sales
Set up before the fourteenth
Valentines half off
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–Jonathan Caswell
(Haiku)
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Walk on dry pavement
Thinking of the snow to come
Might be calling out
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Man’s struggle with drifts
Many legendary tales
Not all of them survived
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Walking on pavement
Thinking about fifteen inches
Winter battles come
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–J.E.C.
(Each three-line poem is its own separate haiku poem)
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Rain-snow line moves north
Changing forecast shows its worth
Road treatment’s head start!
–J.E.C.
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Seeing who comes in
Depending on where they live,
Predictions spot on?
-J.E.C.
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Pick ups early done
Before the roads get too bad
Less drivers–more plows!
-J.E.C.
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–Jonathan Caswell
In here sunlight streams
false impressions of outside,
Described best as brisk!
–J.E.C.
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Cyber Monday fun
Let the economy run…
Catch things with your Net!
–J.E.C.
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Back to work again,
Hardly a three day weekend…
Someone minds the store!
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–Jonathan E. Caswell
SPRING RAIN HAIKU
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Snow flurried morning,
Three days’-worth of hard raining?
Picnics are awash!
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Daylight Savings Time,
Promises more sunlight now…
Rain boots–not swim suits!
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Seventies weekend,
No…not the years we lived it…
But temperature!
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Springtime rain clouds pour
Out God’s blessings water-born!
Sing His praise, all earth!
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–Jonathan Caswell
(each a separate haiku, although all are related by theme.)
By the Mighty Mumford 