{"id":11954,"date":"2012-02-28T06:30:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=11954"},"modified":"2012-02-26T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T05:00:11","slug":"tuesday-poem-haiku-may-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/02\/28\/tuesday-poem-haiku-may-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: Haiku—“May Day”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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May Day \u2013
\nthe last hydrangea bends
\nunder snow<\/p>\n

(c) Helen Lowe<\/p>\n

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Published in the taste of nashi<\/em><\/strong>, the Third NZ Haiku Anthology, Windrift, 2008
\nSubmitted by E Berry, NZ selector, for the Red Moon (US) international haiku anthology 2008<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>On Saturday I posted some photos of hydrangeas in my (currently) summer garden, here<\/a>. And Steve B commented to say that he was very jealous–and currently his garden was “under a foot of snow.”<\/em> So I promised I would post this haiku today, as a commemoration of when my garden suffered a similar fate. Although the event the poem commemorates occurred a few years ago now, we had similar weather this past winter, as the photo ‘vouches.’\u00a0 The hydrangea shown on Saturday is the same one, featuring as a snowy mound against the fence, on the far right of this photo.<\/p>\n

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  May Day \u2013 the last hydrangea bends under snow (c) Helen Lowe   Published in the taste of nashi, the Third NZ Haiku Anthology, Windrift, 2008 Submitted by E Berry, NZ selector, for the Red Moon (US) international haiku anthology 2008 — On Saturday I posted some photos of hydrangeas in my (currently) summer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11954"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11967,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11954\/revisions\/11967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}