poem, poetry

A Floral Haiku

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Frost comes, flowers fade.
Snow falls; winter blankets all.
Primrose sprouts through snow.

for today’s prompt for Writing with Jishnu: Flowers, Metaphor and haiku

9 thoughts on “A Floral Haiku”

    1. Thank you 🙂 I love those hardy primroses. They grow where no other plant wants to and they come up through snow and all in late Feb/early March. Their bright petals thumb their noses at winter 🙂

  3. ah…I left a message but I guess it didn’t send…

    great haiku, Melinda, but I am having trouble seeing the metaphor, unless the whole piece is a metaphor for life…and, i could be wrong, but I thought haiku were written without the use of figurative language…with so many variations nowadays it’s hard to keep up with what’s accepted…

    nonetheless, this is a beautiful piece 🙂

    1. I think I left out the metaphor. Haiku is not my strong suit but I gave it a try anyway. (in reply to another comment that got flagged as spam–I’m really, really sorry about the mixup)

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