Exercise #18 (page 280)
This exercise was to write a haikus for each season, each including a kigo word (roughly, a reference to season, weather or atmosphere).
People seem to think
Spring is so fresh, bright and new.
All I see is mud.
That time of year when
Leisure outweighs the sweaty
Heat: it’s called summer.
The leaves flutter down,
Gracefully helpless in their
Seasonal descent.
Each home never so
Cozy as when the winter
Swirls coldly without.