Your Spring our Fall
global seasons cancel out
homogenized
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Author notes
Friends on opposite hemispheres are continuously awake for 24 hours, overlapping if short on sleep. Weatherwise, it is in Spring and Fall that seasonal opposites merge.
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Would this merging have been so obvious before the Internet?
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Makes me think of Brazil and how I talk about cold and warm weather with my sisters in the same month of the year. While they go to the beach, I wear gloves and coats.
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Communication across the hemispheres
so aptly expressed.
Aesthete
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Great work Terry!
Nice job on this short work Terry. I admire your description with this!! THANKS!!!
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Thanks much!
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Interesting haiku (and I like your astute observation about Spring and Fall merging seasonal opposites).
Best of Luck in this contest!
<3 Maureen
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The temperatures are similar...
When else do we get agreement all over the globe!
Thank you.
Terry
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bit about the equinox
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Equinox
I had not thought of the Autumnal equinox or the Vernal one either, but of course that would be so! Rather that while one is warming the other is cooling and there is an overlap of the two seasons for some weeks.
Thank you for enriching the concept.
Terry
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"Homogenized" interesting word choice here. I see the blend you are referring to. You are thinking outside the square here with well thought out words. Lovely Haiku...alby
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Dear Terry, nature is amazing how it can be different around the world, you are going into fall as we go into spring. This is one of our coldest winters in a long while. Looking forward to spring and summer when it arrives.
Great haiku Terry.
Love Hine
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Dear Terry
It's impossible to forecast weather here
whatever is the season of the year.
In the South we have a drought while the North is flooded out
and we're due for heavy hail and snow I fear.
We experience the coldest Winter Season
and they tell us Global Warming is the reason!
When they forecast heavy rain, we get sunny days again
and instead of gales the Southerlies are easing.
So whatever weather may be hitting you
we'll be sure to get a semblance of it too
and activities arranging with the weather always changing
makes it difficult to know just what to do!
Thanks for your topical haiku. When I am awake, most of my friends in Europe and USA are still fast asleep and if they wonder why I am always late commenting on their poems or answering their emails, it's usually because they are posting them just as it's my bedtime.
Good luck in the contest. Applause, love and hugs, XXX Hugh (R.)
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Dear Terry, it is very interesting how we have different seasons around the globe. We are in winter here in Australia and September first is the start of Spring, the tree in the yard behind us already has pink blossoms on it, very beautiful.
Lovely haiku Terry.
Joan
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the axis tilts
twenty three point five degrees
different seasons
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I just love how you know this stuff Mike...alby
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...at the change of seasons? That figures, in the intensity of sunlight.
Senryu (haiku) is such a versatile form!! -
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. . . or we can think of the opposite seasons in the two hemisphere from a buddist point of view and see the balance of ying and yang in the universe. @
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You make an interesting observation. Only recently have I had friends in the southern hemisphere to compare weather with. Best of luck!
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I think what impressed me was that although there is a period of time when temperatures match, there are such different results. Certainly I would never have thought of it.
Thank you.
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