How deep is your snow?

If you've ever lived in a northwestern valley, you might know or recall that during part of the year one prays for snowy, firmly packed mountain peaks. Firmly packed because you want that snow to melt slowly, to hold securely to what it knows its job is....to fill the streams, to seep into the rock, to water the fields (sometimes wheat fields) in the heat of the growing season.

Coming home from church on Sunday, we spied what we thought was "new" snow and talked about the phenomenon of nature, the balance so easily tipped by mankind, the abundance of the resources that this earth and particularly our valley have been given.

So what does that have to do with anything - well, if you've been here at Mind Sieve in the last few days, you'll know that it's all about Haiku! But, of course!

snowy Blue Mountains
feed streams, water growing grain
sun bakes whole wheat bread

No photo capture of the Blue Mountains or of snow today - too much mist on them....but I've seen the snow, it is there hopefully waiting for a slow melt.

Lost in Haiku Land?

My pal Riley has exposed my efforts to learn and possibly produce some Haiku poetry by, wouldn't you know, producing his own haiku before I even had a chance!

Anyway, I'm short of naming a day of the week for this event but I would love to see some good Haiku work from you. Because I'm a beginner in this medium, how will I ever know the truth or the depth of this medium until I see it from the outpouring of your minds and comments?

Consider this -

if Riley can do
surely you too, a haiku
maybe you need a collar

I know, I know, keep reading....

Just look at it this way - you can do better than that can't you?

lost in haiku land
mind expanding to grasp it
caffeine alert, help!

photo Sunrise Sister, Maui