Haiku Influenza

Warning: Poetic devices are often contagious,
even to seasonally pleading vegetation.

Spring blossoms light for
Hope flutters like a wet moth --
Eventually.

Golden Summer brings
On bright heat and strawberry skin --
Thoughts are lethargic.

Thunder raises up
Hazy Autumn intentions --
Evolving conscious.

Fresh snow marks Winter
Leaving narcissus fever --
Under the weather.

Haiku's generally contain three elements:

• 17 syllables in 5, 7, 5 line form
• a seasonal reference
• juxtaposition of two images or ideas

An acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each line spells out a word or message. On the other hand, the alliteration, assonance, imagery, metaphors, onomatopoeia, and personification contained in this work are mostly gratuitous -- unless you like that sort of thing, in which case, I sincerely mean it.