Abhra is the host for todays’s prompt which is saying goodbye too soon or saying goodbye when you didn’t/don’t mean it. Interesting prompt. Last year, I said goodbye to winter too soon and then BAM!!!! Major frost. So here is the tanka I wrote at that time because I said it too soon. Come join us over at dVerse for some what I know will be interesting and different takes on this prompt. Have you ever said goodbye and didn’t mean it?
Tanka for Spring Frost (春の霜 harunoshimo)
warm spring day – cherry
blossoms – clouds of pink and white
under bright blue skies –
in the night frost silently
covers and kills all
winter is not yet gone – too
soon goodbye said to winter
free public domain image frost damage
kanzen sakura 
May 24, 2016 @ 14:22:45
Oh that devious winter has it’s way to come back and suck up all the bloom again…
May 24, 2016 @ 16:27:11
I know. Winter can be a sneaky rascal.
May 24, 2016 @ 14:25:16
It’s been a bit of an up-and-down spring, hasn’t it? We keep getting a few days of really balmy weather and then bam, it rains and snows and the temperature drops by half… This may be a slightly different interpretation of the prompt, but in my case I complain of the lilac passing far too quickly – what with strong rains and winds, it seems I only enjoyed their scent for about two days!
May 24, 2016 @ 16:26:51
It has been so rainy here. I can’t get my garden put in which is frustrating. Today it seems early summer is here, but I am not holding my breath. I hope you are well!
May 24, 2016 @ 15:04:01
Here in WA state it was the rhoderdendrians that came & went too quickly. For my wife, it was frustrating to wait until May to plant her tomatoes; fearing a freak frost.
May 24, 2016 @ 16:09:27
no fear of frost but too damned much rain. If it stays sunny for a week, I’ll be able to put in my garden. the guy I hire to plow my field area is losing money because of the wet ground. In Auguest, I’ll be doing rain dances.
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May 24, 2016 @ 15:27:40
I always have trouble with winter; it messes with my mental equilibrium. So I’m always glad when spring arrives. 🙂
May 24, 2016 @ 16:25:34
I don’t mind winter – I actually enjoy it. But when it’s time for spring, I don’t want winter to sneak back.
May 24, 2016 @ 15:56:35
That’s really reach and beautiful – thank you Tony…
May 24, 2016 @ 16:24:57
Thank you Abhra. Take care. Don’t be a stranger!
May 24, 2016 @ 16:19:46
It is… I really like the vivid images you provide. I feel like I can see all of this.
May 24, 2016 @ 17:04:51
Beautiful ❤ and yes winter does tend to sneak back sometimes before its final departure 🙂
Lots of love,
Sanaa
May 24, 2016 @ 17:56:24
Isn’t the word “frost” just so sinister, and so delicious? 😉
May 24, 2016 @ 18:06:27
And then add in that throat clearing haruno…
Frosted cakes are happy. Frost killed flowers are not. Frost Frrrroooooodssssssst. Like, pernicious…
I wonder about a haibun just using words that sound a certain way to make a mood like slither or chuckle.
May 24, 2016 @ 19:56:30
Ah yes the seasons have minds of their own.
May 24, 2016 @ 22:55:30
I hate to see Winter go down here. It’s at least cool for a while
May 25, 2016 @ 22:08:26
In another month, I’ll be wishing for snow.
May 25, 2016 @ 02:06:23
Goodbyes said too early do come back to haunt us as nameless regrets…
May 25, 2016 @ 08:10:55
Oh I understand! I always say spring is fickle. Perhaps I should add that winter can be evil! 🙂
May 25, 2016 @ 22:07:38
Winter can be evil but it is my favorite season.
May 25, 2016 @ 08:34:58
Winter’s departure is often fickle. She is a guest that has overstayed her welcome, but doesn’t get that , and keeps coming back for “one more goodbye”
May 25, 2016 @ 22:06:46
I think this time, we’ve seen the back end of her!
May 25, 2016 @ 13:42:06
Enjoyed the write. Winter always does that I think – a last blast to remind us she’ll be back.
May 25, 2016 @ 22:06:06
Yes, she does!
May 25, 2016 @ 15:34:59
Ah, that winter does like to give us a bit of a shock sometimes doesn’t it! Lovely poem.
May 25, 2016 @ 22:05:26
It is indeed a sneaky wench sometimesQ
May 25, 2016 @ 16:27:41
In Western New York winter takes its sweet old time and I sometimes wonder if it ever really goes away. Love your tanka, a beautifully expressive form.
May 25, 2016 @ 22:04:58
Here in the South, summer has taken its sweet time. We finally had, after 48 straight days of cold weather and daily rain, a sunny day yesterday and today, about 90F. Supposed to be the hottest summer on record here in the US. I am already missing snow.
May 25, 2016 @ 18:50:03
Winter may be abhorrent to some. But winter will be missed for things that one can appreciate or accomplish during winter. Rightly so Toni!
Hank
May 25, 2016 @ 22:03:29
Winter is actually my second favorite season. I accomplish little but I don’t mind! I just enjoy the cold weather and the snow.
May 26, 2016 @ 03:23:50
I think your tanka strikes a chort with most of the Northern hemisphere readers this year.
May 26, 2016 @ 14:36:36
It has certainly been cold and rainy for far too long here. But at last, finally, several consecutive days of sun and warmth.