Sweet, relaxing, sunny, rainy, gentle spring is with us here in Central Ohio. Not too warm, not too chill, often just right. Here are haiku in celebration of the season.

touching earth

earth

touching me

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strolling the country road

looking right, looking left

I never arrive

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huge bumblebee

chasing you

you think

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all-night rain

circling moon

cradled sleep

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early spring

she’s waiting for

the bloom and scent of roses

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showering pink

the crabapple

surrenders her blossoms

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toppled

garbage bins

of hound dog spring

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astounding leaps

branch to branch

squirrel Olympiad!

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he vanished

from his thoughts

clear lake contentment

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these gifts

the falling sun

the shadowed breezes

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the backyard oak

drops a limb

like me, imperfect

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rain-swept earthworm

blocks her path

she steps aside

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