This winter is the pits. Where are the lovely sharp sunshiny frosty mornings? Must we suffer only rain, incessant, interminable, smothering all interest in going outside to enjoy a bracing walk. Crisp outlines of trees are nowhere to be seen ─ just misty, murky amorphous landscape, curtained intermittently by sweeping squalls. It isn’t even cold.
Soporific rain
produces open-mouthed snores
from bored sufferer
My second attempt at a haibun for dVerse Haibun Monday, this time on prompt, writing to the photograph provided by Gabriella. Sorry about the surfeit of adjectives!
I had to chuckle at “It isn’t even cold”. So true…if it’s going to be dreary, let there be snow!
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Oh dear, sounds gloomy indeed. Whoever wrote “whatever the weather, we’ll weather the weather, whether we like it or not” ?! Hope you see the sun soon…and more than tremulous 🙂
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My winter is different this year .. but how I remember those soggy winters on the Italian Riviera … totally disheartening – totally melancholy – although I lived in a villa overlooking the sea and loved when the squalls pounded the bay. You’ve described it very well in your haibun! Sorry the weather is so miserable though.
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Yesterday there were brief intervals of weak sunshine, but today it’s back to normal.
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Ugh … yesterday here it was rainy and glum too … but today the sun came out.
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SMiLes.. i suppose
A first poem..
inspiRed iN
Cave oN
Cold Winter
day..
Writing
SinGs
Coldbound..:)
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(Laugh.) Yes, it can get like that! Ours here is monsoonal, lately. At last we get gaps in between.
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LOL, I hear you….endless grey here too….but we have green things poking up in the garden!
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I hate that kind of winters. I remember such a mild and rainy winter a few years ago. I was so longing for cold and some blue in the sky.
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Not exactly a shower of praise for rain! And here we are longing for the stuff. The more the merrier.
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You can have ours with pleasure.
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Pack it up and send it express!
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I can feel the rain seeping into your brain.. c
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Yes it’s very soggy just now.
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I love your haiku. It sums up the feeling of being trapped by incessant rain beautifully. I am trying to reply to your comments on my blog but my tablet is having a hissy fit. I will reply later when I am on the computer.
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I love that expression hissy fit!
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Rain and dreary rain, smiles ~ At least better than covered in snow ~
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I can’t imagine having constant rain like that…brings back memories of Brittany!
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In Manche, if you don ‘t like the weather normally you wait five minutes. Not this time: 4 days of continuous rain. The sun actually struggled through briefly at 5pm.
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we are entering Rainy Season down here, although so far, it’s been mostly sunny. We had so much rain, last Spring, in Nova Scotia, I swear we were growing mold on our backsides!
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😀
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ditto on what is up with winter!
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Here in southern Ontario Canada is it cold at 0 C but yesterday was almost spring like and melted most of the snow. Our weather mish mash this year is a frittata of sorts. I think
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Sounds tasty!
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We have sun today, so you can live in hope of a wind in your direction. 🙂 >
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A weak and tremulous sun has appeared.
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Love that word, tremulous.
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“misty, murky”…”sweeping squalls” — your word choices here are spot on, conveying the gloom you feel.
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We had a few weeks with wonderful winter… and here it’s not even raining… just the grey of persistent dusk…
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I must confess that for weeks in December and January we had lovely sunshine. But whatever the weather, it’s a perennial theme for Brits.
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🙂 For Swedes too… we get most of the weather of Britain second-hand…
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I love this! Describes exactly how I’m feeling today. It’s showery so I have to take a chance and walk the dogs, but I know we’ll be caught in it once we’re out.
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You have captured the season so very well here, Viv. I call it mid-winter blahs. Nice haibun.
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(Smiles – correct link now! Good!)
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My sentiments exactly. We are FINALLY getting a cold and dry snap.
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Drumming on the roof / gurgling in the gutters / reason to rejoice.
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Yuk! 😦
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we don’t have rain this morning but the wind is horrendous and people are getting blown over
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Oh dear. It’s not so windy here today, just ‘orrible.
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