Blooming Ice Flowers (Haiku)

blooming ice flowers /
overwhelm autumn grasses /
made brittle by time //

Soft Rime. Wikipedia.

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tender leaves wither — /
sewn into jagged cocoons  /
by icy needles //

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This post is written for Carpe Diem “Only the First Line” #4. Our task was to write a haiku using the following first line:  “Blooming ice flowers”.  This is my contribution.  I hope you will visit Carpe Diem to see the other participants.

The second haiku is a “bonus” haiku.  ;)

When Kristjaan heard the term “blooming ice flowers” he thought of ice on a window, but I thought about the photos of “rime” I have been seeing on Wikipedia.  The photos I selected for this post show “soft rime”.  Soft rime is a deposit of white ice that forms “when the water droplets in light freezing fog or mist freeze to the outer surfaces of objects, with calm or light wind. The fog freezes usually to the windward side of tree branches, wires, or any other solid objects.”

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First image: Rime on Grasses after a Foggy Day. Wikipedia.

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