NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 17

and a Happy Haiku Day to all! A welcome rainy day here, cool enough to welcome a light sweatshirt but warm enough to relax into spring. Apologies to Bob Dylan for today’s first haiku du jour.

Hard rain gonna fall
thirsty ground unweeded
takes in every drop

When the first drops fell
everyone paused turning
toward the window

rainy days, required
the blue-gray skies setting off
yellow-green tree buds

aren’t we all looking
the solid edge to stand on
the leap rushing up.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. — Igor Stravinsky 1936