a winter morning
spent plowing
yesterdays snowdrifts
we had several feet of snow accumulated on the ground in Juneau from the night before. spent the morning plowing the driveway for which at some point my mind started drifting to my childhood. reliving the winter past with my siblings I found myself getting home sick.
Haiku is one of the most important forms of traditional japanese poetry. Literally means "starting verse", and was the first starting link of a much longer chain of verses known as haika. Because the haiku set the tone for the rest of the poetic chain, it enjoyed a privileged position in haiku poetry, and it was not uncommon for a poet to compose a haiku by itself without following up with the rest of the chain.