CRFG Redwood Chapter Haiku Garden/Weather Poetry Slam

Actually, it just started with one member sending a little haiku out on the list serve about how cold it was; and it snowballed!

Haiku poetry is limited to 17 syllables that you can say in one breath, typically: 5 syllables, then 7, then 5 again, but variations on syllable count are OK. They don't have to rhyme. More info at http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm#comego

Twenty degrees cold,
twenty six in the greenhouse,
frozen bananas!

(with a soft jab to our SoCal brethren)
Smooth skinned tasty fruit,
without Botox or Silicon;
I like organic.
-Keith Borglum, Santa Rosa

A cold sun hangs low
the last apples are falling
will bees come in spring?
- Dian Crayne, Willits

Days are shorter now
colder and colder it gets
when will it be spring?

Kiwi a-plenty
hanging high from the trellice
now ripe for eating.

Defying the frost
kiwi, guava, sapote
they will not be lost.

Tangerines, oranges [she pronounces them ornges]
lemons, limes, and grapefruit
in this season-new.
-David & Florence Strange, Sonoma County

Bare branches sparkle
golden globes of tasty fruit
adorn the frosty morn.

Silver tinted lines
edge leaves of frost and fall
leaves of morning dew.
-The Ulmer Household, Sebastopol

All brown in the buds
I see clear trees in the cold
Hush! The tree has fogged.
-Gary Goodenough, using an online haiku generator (so he says!)

Ice on the lemons
freezing, frozen, on a stick
it’s a popcicle!
-Mike Roa, Sonoma County