Short Cuts to Spring

As it says

Short Cuts to Spring

 

Cut

Nothing like a new

mown lawn of sweet verdant grass

to walk bare foot on.

 

01/05/15

 

Spring

The perfume of blossoms

hang in the sun

giving fragrance to life.

 

01/05/15

 

Darling Buds

Colours burst forth

as if the race is on

to cover the earth

in splendour.

 

01/05/15

 

Stirrings

The sun warms the earth,

shakes her from her

deep hibernation,

awakening her desires.

 

01/05/15

 

Buzz

The bees get busy

gathering,

pollinating,

giving life to fruit.

 

01/05/15

Reviews

[Nadia Gerassimenko]

So refreshing to read this and behold spring fever at this moment in time. Thank you for this impeccable beauty.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you for reading and for you kind comments Nadia.

[alf]

Hi John. if only every season could be heralded in with such a relevant senryu so beautifully penned!!! love the flow on and the revelations that depict the arrival of spring. A lovely write and a pleasure to read, alf

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you so much Alf

[jacob erin-cilberto]

what a pleasant array of freshly mowed haiku and tanka to bring spring to bear...and it is finally here...certainly it took no short cut to get here...it took the long way around....

nicely done.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Why thank you Jacob

[Lydia Shutter]

What a lovely string of poetry...tanka? Not sure of the form, but they put me in a happy sunny mood. Wonderful work, John. Lydi**

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Glad it made you feel in a sunny mood Lydi. The first is a senyru the rest are just free verse. Many Thanks.

[ANTO]

A great bouquet for Spring and I liked the collection's title very much. Those kinds of plays appeal to me a lot. Sensuality is brought to bear in subtle ways here John. My favourite is Spring, it has a lot going on in such a short piece. Bravo my friend. Love this ensemble.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thanks Anto. Blame KLGoode for getting me try these short bursts.