April Haikus: Week 2
Daily Poems for National Poetry Month
The following are a collection of daily “notes” posted to Substack the second week of April, pairing a photograph of mine with a haiku.
8. Angst
Beneath spring snow
young crocus says: “not again!”
purple petals close.
Image: © Jodi Proctor
9. Time to Quit My Day Job
World, just let me play
deep in this Substack sandbox
digging a poem.
[insert photograph of me happily stacking recently dug lines of poetry]
10. Persistence
City trees dig roots
past sewer pipes—burrow slow
then rise, majestic.
Image: © Jodi Proctor
11. Permission to Rest
On a lazy day
you and the bed merge, become
a soft cloud of dreams
Image: © Jodi Proctor
12. Netanyahu’s Genocide
The scorched earth campaign:
dark movement, death rolling out
like a black carpet.
Image Source: Aljazeera. Link to donate to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society: here.
13. Dear Friend
How I wish you knew:
your love is the sun, warming
the flower open.
Image: © Jodi Proctor
14. Savouring
Few sights hold more joy
than a puppy running free
through a sunlit field.
Image: © Jodi Proctor
I would love to hear from you! Which haiku was your favourite? Please share below.
Time to quit my day job, permission to rest and persistence:)
A mindful life, rich with the tasty textures of each passing moment—just like each haiku you create. 😋
Keep savoring and writing ✍️ ✨️ ❤️
Jodi, I just love how you see the world and notice everything! I giggled at the quitting your day job one. Yes! Keep playing in this Substack sandbox!!! :) On another note, Netanyahu’s Genocide is just too awful to contemplate. And those aid workers… my heart breaks, every day.