For Amaya’s prompt at dVerse, birth or birthing. For Poets United, Sumana’s mid-week motif, Winter Poems. In Japanese, the word for first snow is hatsu yuki. It is a holy event.
First Snow
“When snow falls, nature listens. ” Antoinette van Kleeff
Today the November sky opens up and gives birth to the first snow.
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Nov 12, 2019 @ 15:00:07
Perfect, Toni! It’s a gloomy day here–we had rain, then sleet, then snow, but nothing stuck.
Nov 12, 2019 @ 15:01:16
It started as rain/snow mix, big gloppy flakes and then…snow! It is sticking but not sure for how long.
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Nov 12, 2019 @ 15:09:17
I love that image of the sky opening.
Nov 12, 2019 @ 15:11:03
What a wonderful birth… I want to feel the taste of snow on my tongue.
Nov 12, 2019 @ 15:11:52
I would send you some if I could. I have been out dancing in it all morning.
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Nov 12, 2019 @ 15:25:21
ah….you and I went the same way in terms of Nature’s birthing process. Yours much softer, more gentle and providing a comfort to the earth. Lovely.
Nov 12, 2019 @ 15:37:51
Beautiful quote, beautiful photo, and very beautiful sentence. Love it Toni!
Nov 12, 2019 @ 15:52:48
Excellent Toni!
Nov 12, 2019 @ 16:32:31
It opened up plenty, here! This is simple as new snow.
Nov 12, 2019 @ 18:30:28
Thank you Shay!
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Nov 12, 2019 @ 17:44:42
You are really giving me a jones for American sentences; yours is perfection.
Nov 12, 2019 @ 18:27:48
Thank you Glenn. I work on them as long and hard as my haiku.
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Nov 12, 2019 @ 18:16:45
Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #7: Toni Spencer’s latest #AmericanSentence for #dVersePoets #TuesdayPoetics!
Nov 13, 2019 @ 00:02:20
I love the sky opening up to give birth. Beautiful 💕
Nov 13, 2019 @ 02:37:40
A wonderful image, Toni, and a great quote to accompany it.
Nov 13, 2019 @ 06:00:06
All of this beautifully rendered, Toni. The “holy event” setting, the quotation, the photo, and your American sentence. Masterful.
Nov 13, 2019 @ 09:26:55
Thank you!
Nov 13, 2019 @ 10:29:54
We don’t always welcome it as “a holy event” but I like that thought, Toni! I think children especially anticipate and sense the wonder of the first snowfall.
Nov 13, 2019 @ 10:51:23
I know I do. I was out in it and back in and out all day dancing in it and walking around looking.
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Nov 13, 2019 @ 11:19:31
Wonderful, Toni! My farmer husband sees it as a hinderance to baling bedding for the animals right now.
Nov 13, 2019 @ 11:21:14
I am sure he does! It is the same around here although later on in the season, they will call it “poor man’s fertilizer”.
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Nov 13, 2019 @ 12:13:08
Just like. (K)
Nov 13, 2019 @ 12:26:55
Thanks! ??
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Nov 13, 2019 @ 23:41:20
I obviously need a translator (my younger daughter used to tell her father and me that)
Nov 14, 2019 @ 05:56:20
Sometimes we all do. It is part of being human.
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Nov 13, 2019 @ 16:11:37
SOOOOOOOOOOO lovely!!!!!
Nov 13, 2019 @ 17:00:29
It does, it did . . . but it’s all gone. Yet, the birth is notable anyway. So delightful to witness the first snow!
Nov 13, 2019 @ 18:22:56
Snow was birthed here yesterday.
Nov 14, 2019 @ 01:46:11
Giving birth is the best as it creates something new Very good
Nov 14, 2019 @ 08:03:11
The first snowfall is always the most magical.
Nov 14, 2019 @ 09:59:22
kaykuala
November sky opens up and
gives birth to the first snow.
Beautifully said Toni and how very appropriate of a birthing occurrence it is!
Hank
Nov 14, 2019 @ 10:41:04
A cold but gentle birth!