Autumn to me is a little complex in a season. There’s always two ways to look at it. Either you can look at it like cold days of winter are fast approaching, or maybe that life is getting a restart. So which would you say it is?
For Blaga’s Season Favorite Challenge – Autumn ; for Sensational Haiku Wednesday‘s 108th Week, where the prompt is Scent ; and also for Haiku My Heart; accompanying image from THIS SOURCE.
Autumn: first scent of
New hardships; or perhaps sign
Of fresh beginnings
© Leo 21/July/2011
Great Haiku. I love the Autumn! for me I get the Indian summer wind. Nice
I don’t like summer winds from any country, TheMsLvh 😀 Too hot, and I don’t like hot. LOL.
Well said..it could be simply a’thing.. Autumn..even the splash of colors to a joyless life!!!
Just a season? Yeah, could be, Fiducia 🙂 I love the splash of colors for sure..
a true haiku! beautifully written and great use of the prompts, Leo. i often wish i had known what a traditional haiku was before naming my blog. love this!
This is a true haiku? 😮 😀 YAY! I got one.. I wish I do more often, but its a rarity. Thanks, Dani.
I like the positive last sentence
and the photo that to me captures both feelings of the season.
☮ Siggi in Downeast Maine
Thanks, Siggi 🙂 Glad you felt the image to be apt and the poem to be positive..
My feelings about the seasons, and what I refer to as The Circle of Life, is that there is no beginning, and there is beginning in each moment. Your haiku asking the question has many ansers. Everyone might have a diffrent perspective and everyone is correct. Today is the beginningmof the rest of my life.
Peace
Nice thoughts, Spadoman.. indeed that last line is so true and poignant 🙂
Lovely. Oh, how I wish it was autumn here!
Thanks Snap 🙂 I wish it was too.. But still a while to go..
Beautifully put Leo. I do so love the colours of autumn, so that photo is gorgeous too!
Thanks! 🙂 Autumn colors are quite fascinating to me as well.. Glad you liked it, Rosie 🙂
oh beautiful fresh beginnings,
your photograph is like an open palm offering them all!
Thank you very much, Rebecca 🙂
Leo, sign of new beginnings thsi!!1 Beautiful… loved it.. waiting for Sunday.. God bless!!!
Thanks, and I am waiting for Sunday too, Rameshji 🙂 A much needed weekend after some hectic work weeks this month.
I prefer “fresh beginnings” – and the scents of Autumn are wonderful. It’s my favourite season of all. Crisp, cool, fresh days… bright colours… sigh
Great haiku, Leo!
I prefer that too, Jenn 🙂 but fall ain’t my favorite after all 😀
I’m an autumn child
each year, loving it’s return
thank you for your words
🙂
Glad you liked my words, Gyamato 🙂 Thanks!
I’ve always loved autumn. Heck I even love winters…and summers…and the rainy season
But that is a beautiful haiku…love the thought 🙂
You seem to be a gal of all seasons then, Antara 😀 Glad you loved the haiku.
As much as I love spring … I believe autumn if my favorite … nicely done, Leo! 🙂
I like monsoons better, Becca 😉
I adore Autumn, the crisp smell in the air, falling red and gold leaves, the smell of freshly sharpened pencils as children go off to school, and misty days too. It is a good time for new beginnings. Nice picture and haiku.
Noelle
Yes, quite a lot of things are attractive to autumn, Noelle 🙂 It is a lovely time of the year!
This is an amazing haiku from a technical standpoint. I especially love the way you compare the two options of hardships and beginnings with the semicolon. Beautiful work that is so emotional, and the picture you chose is just perfect.
Thank you, Lola 🙂 Glad you felt it an amazing haiku. I loved the picture too 😀 It is quite significant of autumn I felt.
Still summer here and spring and summer are my favorite seasons. But, I love your photo and haiku.
Thanks, Fran 🙂 Its approaching autumn here. Not quite there yet either. 😀
The photograph is fabulous, colours, content, balance and perspective. I think we are mostly in agreement that autumn is the magical season of new promise! I love all the seasons as they change, here in the UK we really notice this, now in the middle of summer, but the thought of that crisp autumn air, the colours, the light, I’m getting all excited – thanks for the reminder and your lovely haiku.
Sue x
Yes, I think it is too, Sue 🙂 But the fall colors aren’t as evident here in India as elsewhere perhaps. Glad you liked where I went with the haiku. Thanks very much. 🙂
Very nice tribute to the season … and I love that picture.
I have across your post somewhere else, and I thought I will visit your blog.
Nice to meet you~
Thanks, Heaven 🙂 Glad you liked it and nice to meet you too. 🙂
Where did you read my post? 😮 I have only linked it at Blaga’s, at SHW and Haiku My Heart.. Haven’t written it anywhere else..!
Beautiful colors in the picture and I wonder too just as you have beautifully put in the Haiku!! Sad I do not get to see such scenes in this concrete jungle here 🙁
I live in a concrete jungle too, Nanka, but thankfully my mind refuses to stay in this place always 😀 Glad you liked the haiku..
i like the deeper meaning of your haiku…and i hope, always, for new beginnings
I hope so too, Leslie 🙂
Sorry for the late visit to your lovely autumn post Leo! I’d definitely go with the fresh beginnings … The image is perfect too! Thanks for linking! Always a pleasure to have you around!
No need for sorries. Glad you liked it and a pleasure to have you around too, Blaga 😀
that is so true leo… a great place to be… half of this and half of that… the venture of a new, peeling off the old….
Yes, autumn does remind me of that, so wrote 🙂 Glad you liked it, Ms. Pie 😀
Couldn’t agree more about autumn. But then that’s so often the case with everything in life… does anything come with a finality? I liked the take and as always, the picture. How your imagery always complements your words so well is an art you should teach.
I guess all things usually have options 🙂 Glad you liked it and felt the image/imagery compliments the words. Thanks, Deboshree 🙂
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