I cannot remember a time when I did not write poetry. I can remember finding this in my daughter's book when she was 7:-
'It is snowing, it is glistening,
It is time for Jesus' christening'
and thinking 'chip off the old block!'.
There will be poems from other sources too,all acknowledged.
Haiku for March
Haiku is a Japanese verse form with very strict rules.
There can be no wasted words in haiku,and the beauty of the result is due to intense concentration upon meaning rather than effect.
Katy Ledin cleverly set out the rules within the structure:
Haiku Haiku
A three-line poem
Seventeen syllables long
- Five,seven,then five.
Here is my Haiku for March
Wild windy weather;
Tossing daffodil-bonnets
Under flying clouds.