Re: Reblooming Iris Haiku

In private Email, I have been urging Julie Allen to write an article or a
poem for the Spring issue of the Reblooming Iris Recorder. I got carried away
in insisting  that a haiku would be easy.  But then I decided it would not be
so easy in the classic haiku form because in classic form the season should
be readily apparent from the haiku and an iris blooming in the fall would
confuse the season.  Then I suddenly got a brainstorm and composed a haiku
which I sent to Julie---she in turn urged me to share it with the list.  So,
poor as it is, here goes: 

 Haiku Written Upon Seeing A Reblooming Iris
 
 Chrysanthemum scent
                                              All around and yet I see
                                              An iris bloom! Ah! 
Clarence Mahan in Virginia
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