April Rules the Land
(April haiku)
April rules the land,
leaden and golden in turns,
wayward as we are.
*
Oxford Street, busy,
a splintered rainbow, patterns,
shaken and broken.
*
The white narcissus
sings with a voice as sweet as
her brother blackbird.
Christina Egan © 2000
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The last haiku originally referred to ‘the ivory rose’, although in England, outdoor roses do not blossom yet in April. When I changed the wording to ‘the white narcissus’ to link it to the season and month, I did not know that the flower’s official name is Narcissus poeticus, or Poet’s Narcissus!
The ivory rose
sings with a voice as sweet as
her brother blackbird.