The prompt at One Deep Breath this week is a deliciously seasonal one. As it is a bank holiday today in Edinburgh, we went for a walk around Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh. Many of the trees and bushes are magnificent at the minute, covered in berries. Hence these haiku:
Black elderberries
ripen by the roadside
- pick them to make wine.
Rowan berries
ripen, red, pink, yellow
- a feast for the birds.
Personally I hate eating berries - its the seeds I hate - but these haiku are georgeous.
ReplyDeleteI like berries - and your haiku beautifully attest to the signs of fall around you. Thanks for sharing your lovely view!
ReplyDeleteI love them.
ReplyDeleteIt seems so fitting that elderberries ripen.
Really delicious haiku!!
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking of knocking on a stranger's door, a few miles up the road, to ask to pick their elderberries. Memories of childhood far away, where there are more elderberries! Thanks for the great haiku.
ReplyDeletebeautiful poems :)
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Hi there and thanks for commenting. Like you Clare, there are some berries I don't like eating (and rowans are poisonous to humans, so don't try those!), but they look lovely decorating the trees and bushes just now!
ReplyDeleteYummy haiku :)
ReplyDeleteNext year I hope to be there in person, around this season. Your haiku paint a lovely picture of the scene that awaits me.
ReplyDeletebeautiful haiku, juliet.
ReplyDeletethe wine elderberries! i remember doing this one year - what a lark persuading the berries off the stalks! then we picked sloes last year - to put in the gin - and totally forgot about them.
Beautiful! I love the name rowan tree. Just found out a few years ago it was what we call mountain ash here in Maine. Your name is better.
ReplyDeleteHI there and thanks for the comments!
ReplyDeleteCatherine I'm sure you'll love Scotlandin autumn next year when you're over. Ian - yes harvesting can be hard work as well as fun, can't it? And Sandy , we also sometimes call the rowan the mountain ash.
I love the contrast of berries against their green leaves and vines. Truly lovely haiku.
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ReplyDeleteOh, I just love this - the use of berries as an image of Fall rather than the traditional changing leaves. Beautiful.
ReplyDeletenice angle.
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