{"id":1613,"date":"2024-03-09T11:19:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T17:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2024-03-09T11:19:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T17:19:32","slug":"three-spring-haikus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"Three Spring Haikus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Wyn Mecherly<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/tree-2881108_1280-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1614 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/tree-2881108_1280-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/tree-2881108_1280-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/tree-2881108_1280-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/tree-2881108_1280-534x300.jpg 534w, https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/tree-2881108_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown, gray, dots of white<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March landscape, dreary but full<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of promise of Spring<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Insistent March winds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sweep the riverbank.&nbsp; Bare trees<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sway, awakening<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/clouds-2284778_1280-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1615 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/clouds-2284778_1280-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/clouds-2284778_1280-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/clouds-2284778_1280-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/clouds-2284778_1280-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/clouds-2284778_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pond-5135097_1280-1024x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1616 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pond-5135097_1280-1024x700.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pond-5135097_1280-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pond-5135097_1280-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pond-5135097_1280-439x300.jpg 439w, https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pond-5135097_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pale buds burst forth on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early Spring willows forming<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Misty green fountains<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Image credits:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022  <strong>B&amp;W Trees:<\/strong> Joshua_seajw92 on Pixabay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022  <strong>Trees with Blue Sky:<\/strong> NatureFriend on Pixabay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022  <strong>Willows on Pond:<\/strong> Mabel Amber on Pixabay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March landscape, dreary but full \/ of promise of Spring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-march-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}