Killing Two Challenges With One Post

This was the thought process I muddled through when composing my entry for @Mariah’s “With the coming of spring…” challenge. I didn’t set a timer so I can’t definitively say it was completed within 15 minutes, but once I got started, it was close.

I dictated snippets on my phone in Notes while walking this morning. Initially, I was inspired by the neighborhood daffodils in bloom in lawns with full sun exposure while those in my garden are just starting to break the surface of the ground.

I hadn’t planned on multitasking during my a.m. stroll, but ended up doing so. Had to walk while nonsensically rambling into my phone and keeping track of syllables for the haiku by repeatedly extending the fingers of my left hand. So, I’m that weird, old guy who appears to be aimlessly roaming the alleys, speaking in choppy sentences and having seemingly uncontrollable tremors in one hand.

Here’s the original draft:

The daffodils show their hide and seek

Reveal

Daffodil

After playing hide and seek

All winter

The game started last fall

After winning last year’s game

Of hide and go seek

Daffodils emerge

After winning last fall game

To win yet another game

To win last fall game

To claim victory

Oh, there, you are

To win hide and seek

Daffodils emerge

To win the hide and seek game

started last fall

Here’s the final haiku that I was happy with:

Daffodils emerge

to win the Hide-and-Seek game

they started last fall

And here’s what I submitted to satisfy that pesky 15 word limit qualifier:

Daffodils pop up

to win the Hide And Seek game

they’ve been in since fall.