April 30

        waiting as a child

        birthday Christmas vacations

        waiting still for spring

April 29

Bent branches and brown

grasses cannot compress spring's

resolute uprising

April 28

at the chipmunk

squint, stare, view another angle

- still last year's oak leaf

April 27

maples draped with red

sun warmed stained-glass seeds

languidly breathe spring

April 26: Restless

one bat circles away

one hawk figure-eights and flees

one crow caws sundown

April 25 Dusk

it is quiet now

the tiniest leaves are still

two mourning doves sing

April 24

early hummingbird

passing through to warmer places?

yes, that would be best

April 23 - Late rain . . .

April's showers gift

apologies to May flowers

with crocodile tears

April 22

the hummingbirds have

not arrived early better

predictors of change

April 21

glorious cascades

of pale green leaves frame a mother

lost in her cell phone

April 20

                                              elfin butterflies

                                              fluttering a mating dance

                                              just one sunny day

April 19

was it outside howls or

the dream-fields' disappearing house:

awake in the dark night

(Theme from NaPoWriMo day 19 prompt)

April 18

the maples have remembered their leaves --

ashes recall drought

April 16

                                              fragrant arbutus

                                              pink and so early this spring

                                              -- unsettling joy

April 17

power lines slice

fog over the pond beside

a solar panel hill

Written for the Haiku Foundation's Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration

April 15

caught between chores on a busy Saturday one yellow daffodil

April 14

tree frogs trill at last -

in the dark - strain to stay awake

but birds are singing  

April 13

                                        sometimes these flower.

                                        early heat - everything slows . . .

                                        birds sing to the cat

April 12

                                    fascinated by

                                    water coursing over the dam.

                                                           the heron escaped . . .

April 11

a day gone missing

should I check my daily journal?

it was a windy day

April 10

Daisy bouquet with

chrysanthemums cut down twice

-- waiting for spring

April 9

                                  barely awake walk

                                  into the day's bright light wonder

                                  at the fleeting sunset

April 8 - Finding Spring

Stoop to gather twigs

cut and drag the cracked pines.

One purple crocus.

April 7, Good Friday

spring's warmth stands dead cold

silver sun stares through gray clouds:

- - coincidence?

April 6

                                                                warm front slides a shelf

                           above, of turbulent gray clouds -

         

                                                         reckless the robins sing

April 5

hawk threads the rain clouds
                within between the dangling threads
                                

                               flying -- so -- high

April 4

madrigal on wings

spring just opened the windows

sing a while longer

April 3

tended for nesting birds

butterflies and their flowers

a fallow farm nurtured for nature

April 2

slashed by shadows

morning light stripes the distant hills

unsettling the day

April 1, 2023

 

maple buds clamped tight.

Green-headed mallards frothing

the rain-rivened pond