A haiku calendar for April

April Come She Will With Pollen

poetry month and April Fool’s
thirty days to read write and rhyme
at home at work and in our schools
just need to find a little more time
now we’ve passed the foolish first
April come she will with pollen
to hear fresh poems a schoolish thirst
with runny nose and eyes all swollen
in the street sweet chirping is heard
trees spread pollen through the city
sympathetic song comes from a bird
allergy problems get sneezing pity
warm winds blew a new moon last night
and darkness made the stars so bright

Spring Shout

trumpet fanfare warm wind in the air
skunk cabbage starts to sprout
hills blurry with maple buds
icicles drop with thuds
as spring gives a shout
overflowing creeks muddy for weeks
footprints fill a mud puddle
groundhogs slide along the bank
trout season opens and reels crank
as around a campfire we huddle
big garden plans and wet muddy hands
from new varieties worth trying
deer eat rhododendron buds
sparrows peck at worms and grubs
while we eat fresh dandelion

Here is an ABCDarian haiku calendar for April:
1 April adolescence/fools rush in/teenage years
2 April birthday/to be or not to be/Shakespeare baptized (23rd)
3 April come she will/for Easter/a new yellow raincoat
4 April dews and don’ts/thunder lightening and rain/threatening
5 April eggs/hardboiled in a basket/chocolate foiled
6 April fools/forget what they’re like/in May and June
7 April gala/‘Singing In the Rain’/goofing on ‘a stairs’
8 April high jinx/fooling around/in a mud puddle
9 April injustice/pouring rain/on her sixth birthday
10 April joker/cracks/a grin
11 April kick off/soccer balls/hit foolish heads
12 “April Love”/Pat Boone/croons
13 April moon/fools in love/underneath
14 April noon/high calorie buffet/back for a fourth plate
15 April on again/off again rain showers/can’t decide
16 April planting/peanuts and potatoes/both buttered and mashed
17 April quilt/frost mud slush and gush/city square’s a mess
18 April rush/daffodils/visible
19 April stars forecast/Oscars out tonight/dim tomorrow
20 April torrent/all at once/gone in a flash
21 April umbrellas/tool of the month/sold out
22 April violets/my mother’s favorites/by mossy stones
23 April weather/May around the corner/thank goodness
24 April X rated/railroad crossing light/on for days
25 April yellow lights/sign of things to come/use caution
26 April zinnias/unheard of/way too early
27 *April en Paris/La Mome Piaf s’il vous plait/avec plaisir
28 April in Perth/fall for all its worth/down under
29 April prognostication/Portland, ME to Portland, OR/rain
30 April in Brooklyn/schlepping in the rain/making groceries

* #27 is in French. It translates as, “April in Paris /the Little Sparrow if you please/with pleasure”. The Little Sparrow is a nickname for a famous French singer named Edith Piaf (1915-1963). She sang all kinds of pop love songs happy and sad. The poem is about a beautiful time in the city of Paris, France. April in Paris is a famous pop song. Flowers are blooming and love is in the air. A person is buying a ticket to hear Edith Piaf sing or a record by her. The seller says it is a pleasure for him to sell the Edith Piaf concert ticket or a recording by her. She was and still is a much-loved chanteuse by French people and music lovers around the world.