Hail (a Tu-aiku)

A ‘Tu-aiku’ is my name for Dual Haiku, and here, my first stanza is a Japanese style of Haiku with only 9 syllables, and the second stanza is a standard English version, a 5-7-5 syllable count




Hail (a Tu-aiku)


Stones of ice
Fingers go numb
Cheeks burn

Birds gracefully glide
Into the freezing hailstones
Snails calmly slither












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G'day, and welcome to my blog site. My name is Ivor Steven, I live in Geelong, Australia. I'm an ex-industrial chemist, and a retired plumber, and a former Carer of my wife(Carole), for 30 years, who suffered from severe MS. I Write poetry about those personal thoughts, throughout and beyond my life as a Carer. I've been blogging for over 2 years, and writing poems for 19 years. Of course a lot of my poems are about my favourite subject Carole, but since I've been blogging my writings have become quite varied, humourous, mystical, observational, and even a few monster/horror poems.

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  4. The winter seems to have a, less of an effect on all things living, except for us, humans, maybe, we are, worse adapted to, live on this, planet, compared to all the other, species of, living organisms…

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    1. It’s a very cold start to spring, me and Frankie got hit by hail 2 days in row 🌧️😊🐶 but the clouds cleared this afternoon and I captured some wonderful photos of the full moon 🌝 at 6.30 pm 🌏😍🩷🐶🎶

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