Hope and Winter

So, this was a submission for here.
Magically, when I received the notification from this blog, I was pondering how would I really write this haiku knowing nothing about it as much as the idea interested me, as much as I had no clue what I would end up writing?
Then next day on twitter, I saw that Frank Watson had posted three simple Haiku tips:

A good English haiku is usually shorter than 17 syllables,

and a good English tanka is usually shorter than 31 syllables.

Note also that the translation is 5-3-4 (11 syllables).

English usually conveys the same meaning in fewer syllables.

Early Summer rain

the crane's leg

becomes shorter

samidare ni

tsuru no ashi

mijikaku nareri

5-5-7 (not 5-7-5) #Basho #haiku (alt trans)

So I got really excited with the timing and all (Thank you Universe! And of course, thank you Frank Watson! You're my Haiku guru!) and thought that hey! that doesn't sound too difficult but I still couldn't see what I would write and how I would even be able to write TEN of them o.O?

Then the day after that, a foul mood (wintry?) happened to set in in the evening and somehow I knew I had to give this a dash as there was nothing else for me to do at that moment and this would perhaps help me regain my cheeriness. So yes, indeed through the expressing of hope and winter and through attempting to write haiku with Frank watson's guidelines; by reviving hope for winter (the concept I would say that runs through all the ten of them) I ended up reviving myself. Here goes:

One leaf to another

Who will go next?

Winter has come.

Crack in the lip

Crack in the heel

Winter is here to stay.

Cold wintry wind

Creeping crevices

O sweater my shield!

Anticipation

A battered sock

Santa pours dreams.

Wished for snow

A fat white cat

At the doorstep.

This is for real, though it happened before I got the mail about the Haiku submission. 

Now this feller here lives with our new neighbours and one fine afternoon

 he was found sitting at the steps and turns out that he is called Snow o.o

Now a few days earlier, while I was pondering in the kitchen,

I had asked the Universe if it was possible to send some snow this winter? Just a wee bit?

And Snow you sent indeed. Smartass. Thanks anyway and thank you Snow! For inspiring me with the haiku!

Cool breezes

Cat huddles in

Set aglow within.

Frozen unseeing hearts

Wintry freeze visits

They melt within.

Gulf widening

No heat from Earth

They close the gap.

Sneaky sunbeams

Early awakening

Winter has had her way.

Warm breezes 

Rekindling love

Winter bade farewell.

So! That was that.

Hope you enjoy Winter as long as it lasts~

'Cos Summer is just 'round the corner!

Hey! Why don't you give this a shot too?

So! Today is the 3rd of Feb, 2014.
AND LoOk who's happy ~~~~~~~>
:-)

Two mentions.
Hmm.
Not bad at all XD