My neighborhood. Hello, blog friends...
It's been mighty cold in our part of the world, and with the winter chills in mind, I'm responding to Colleen Chesebro's prompt using the Japanese Micro Seasons.
The Japanese have a special respect for our natural environment and recognize 72 micro-seasons. Colleen focused on 7 of them and included an explanatory chart (attached below).
Participants are to use the descriptive phrases (seen on the right side of the chart) in our syllabic poems. I've emboldened these phrases in mine, and I've numbered them to correspond to the chart.
It's been mighty cold in our part of the world, and with the winter chills in mind, I'm responding to Colleen Chesebro's prompt using the Japanese Micro Seasons.
The Japanese have a special respect for our natural environment and recognize 72 micro-seasons. Colleen focused on 7 of them and included an explanatory chart (attached below).
Participants are to use the descriptive phrases (seen on the right side of the chart) in our syllabic poems. I've emboldened these phrases in mine, and I've numbered them to correspond to the chart.
My Haiku, numbered to follow Colleen's chart:
I hope you've enjoyed this cultural journey. I also hope the seasons have been kind to you. May this New Year bless all of us with health, laughter, and love in all its many forms.
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