Challenges for May

We have two challenges for May:
weather
recycling

Both topics are broad ranging. Either a traditional haiku with a seasonal reference or a haiku without would be suitable.

You are welcome to post other Japanese genres also.

Comments

  1. Donna7 May 2012 at 19:17

    In the day, it's bright

    Later on, it rains, so that

    All the flowers grow.

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  2. Donna7 May 2012 at 19:19

    Please pick up a can

    When you are done with soda

    Put it in blue bin

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  3. Maeve Archibald11 May 2012 at 21:04

    quilt cover
    a new pattern
    autumn patchwork

    a gust of wind
    leaves roll over
    start again

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  4. Donna15 May 2012 at 08:32

    Plastic and paper

    Recycle them to keep clean

    This makes trees happy

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  5. Donna15 May 2012 at 08:33

    It rained yesterday

    Scary wind and loud noises

    Now it is all gone.

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  6. BelindaBroughton15 May 2012 at 18:13

    apple blossom 

    spreading the potash of him
    
under his tree

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  7. BelindaBroughton15 May 2012 at 18:19

    storm front
    in the kitchen
    PMT

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  8. Alex Ryan19 May 2012 at 22:19

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  9. Alex Ryan19 May 2012 at 22:33

    africana flower
    shrivelling
    crimson sunset

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  10. Alex Ryan19 May 2012 at 23:25

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  11. Donna20 May 2012 at 19:36

    Clear blue skies today
    It is springtime where I live
    I like to go out

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  12. Donna4 June 2012 at 23:59

    Summertime is here

    I watch my friends go swimming

    They look like fishies

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