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Sally Murphy hosts Poetry Friday from Southwest Australia where our collectively held breath waits for news of relief from the terrible bush fires.
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I have some pretty words spun into haiku to share this week.
We had a mid-day snow storm on Tuesday sending us all home from school and work early and keeping us in the next day. It was wonderful! Even the moon came out to see the delight.
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And, some found haiku from my on-line Bible study. This morning's passage was Psalm 84. I read The Message translation.
sparrows and swallows
angel armies take to skies
god-traveled selah
found by Linda
Oh, a snow day! Lucky you! And how wonderful that it also inspired some poetry! I love your beautiful moon photo and accompanying poem.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, Linda. I love your personification of the moon. And, as someone who has never seen snow, I sighed right along with her!
ReplyDeleteThat next full moon is Friday! Nothing nicer than an early going home and a snow day! I guess everyone, including the moon, is happy!
ReplyDeleteLinda, I just love both your haiku. The birds in Psalm 84 are favorites of mine. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoyed a snow day! We're having much more rain than snow so far this winter. I love both of the haiku.
ReplyDeleteThe moon and the snow together make a magical pair, and that magic shows in your poem. I also love the sighing... a quiet sibilance that I find irresistible. Thanks for this poem, and also the birds from the Psalm. I just got my bird feeders up after receiving them for Christmas, and already I am surprised by visitors! Thanks for this lovely pairing of haiku.
ReplyDeleteDeliciously fun haiku Linda, and lovely image too, thanks! It sounds like you and the moon had a wonderful snow day…
ReplyDeleteLovely haiku, Linda - makes me long for snow on this 50 degree day!
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love! I can't get enough of the moon and the inspiration it gives. Your snow day is the perfect landscape for your haiku. Thank you for sharing both of your poems! Happy New Year my friend! xx
ReplyDeleteI don't mind a lovely snow when we don't have travel anywhere. Your photo and Haiku are lovely, Linda.
ReplyDeleteYour haiku are lovely, Linda. We didn't have any snow, but that moon! How could it not inspire poetry?
ReplyDeleteLinda, it is a new idea to me that the MOON looks down on us and our snow and is smitten! I also had to look up "selah" and found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6rn21b9JKU
ReplyDeleteWhat a busy girl you are--thanks for not one but two cards! I'm planning my valentines now...
Delicious, indeed. How sweet she is peeking out to see what's happening. You get snow, we get 70 degrees in New England. Don't know what to make of that! -- Christie @ https://wonderingandwondering.wordpress.com/
ReplyDeleteI love your delicate, beautiful moon:>)
ReplyDeleteLinda, when I started reading while in Reston, I could not finish my comment because of the festivities. The snow was an unusual sight when I arrived and in contrast to what northern Virginia was like today, a springlike day. Your haiku is a great remembrance for me. Sigh!
ReplyDeleteHi, Linda - How lovely for you to turn a turn in the weather into poetry and a beautiful image! :0) I got only a wee-hours glimpse of the full moon last weekend through through misty cloud cover, but it was welcome. (It's downright warm here today but will be nippy again by the end of the week.)
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