Poetry Stretch this week is about “firsts” for the new year. A first for me is the discovery of Haiku Bones. It provides a weekly prompt much like One Single Impression but for the haiku in all of us.
Two poems came to mind. One is in honor of the 20 years since I met my husband.
winter’s first snowflakes
dance the twirl-a-whirl at dawn
hummingbirds tremble
seek refuge from cold
hidden in branches
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first trembling kiss
mountains and valleys the paths
a twenty year journey
Great Kid Books is hosting Poetry Friday. Haiku Bones list many responses to “trembling”. The Miss Rumphius Effect is writing poems about “firsts”.
Jone Rush MacCulloch 
oops! What I meant to say was Wow, you conveyed such a long journey in so few WORDS!
wow, you conveyed a long journey in so few years.
Love the twirl-a-whirl!
Mountains and valleys, indeed. We just celebrated a 20 year milestone, too!
Oh so beautiful! That first kiss…trembling (or fumbling as the case may be) and look where it has led!
I like them both!
What can be better than kisses and snowflakes?
Have you heard of Haiku very much? A friend of mine runs it and she sends out a weekly challenge:
http://haikuverymuch.com/
Love the snowflakes dancing the tilt-a-whirl. What a great image.