35 responses to “Carpe Diem Haiku – Special – Chèvrefeuille’s ‘the cool rain’”

1. Amazing painting again. Bitter rain…can feel that cold.

   • spring rain is not always gentle…

2. that Gauguin set the perfect mood for your duet, or is it visa-versa….It’s the crows that awaken me too early

   • Crows I don’t have, but because daylight come so early here in Sweden even not so the early birds can be a nuiscance

3. so beautiful on many levels

   • Thank you 🙂

4. I always feel cheated when a cold rain storm steals the last few days of cherry blossoms! Bitter, indeed!

   • And even more bitter in the summer when there’s no cherries.

5. So lovely and the painting was the perfect accompaniement.

   • Thank you.

6. Are pigeons awake so early?

   Cooling Raindrops

   • Not quite yet. Sunrise is 5 AM, but in a few weeks it will be at 4.

7. I love these both but especially the one about the pigeons at 4 a.m. I am often up very late (I’m a night person) and sometimes I am also woken by the birds. They do all seem to get up at 4 a.m. It is one of the times I can hear by listening. The other is 2 a.m. when there is a racket in the streets because the bars have just closed (I live in a city).

   • When in June, dusk will go into dawn without any night betwen… we don’t have midnight sun in Stockholm, but it’s a lot of daylight.

     • Wow, that’s intense.

8. Too much frost late in the spring does tend to make one bitter!

   Enough Showers

   • The frost in May is what really does it for the early bloom

9. Perfectly crafted

   • Thank you 🙂

10. The Gaugin fits perfect with the rain that tends to topple the blossoms
    spring is here

    • Spring is here… but there is a risk of a setback

11. Cooing, cool and bloom all fit like a poetry family. I like the extended version too; it breathes.

    • Thank you 🙂

12. the feeling of melancholy really cuts across

    • Spring always have a touch of melancholy that I think rarely come across in poetry. But you captured that perfectly in your haiku too.

13. I like the first especially. k.

    • Thank you 🙂

14. Beautiful

    • Thank you.-

15. With a Gauguin masterpiece to lend support it can never be wrong. Great haiku set. Nicely Bjorn!

    Hank

    • Thank you Hank. Yes using the masterpieces of painters makes it easy to create poetry I think.

16. That first is exquisite.

    • the one from Kristjaan?

      • Yes, but your first as well.

      • Thank you 🙂

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