{"id":273790,"date":"2018-04-12T06:06:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=273790"},"modified":"2018-04-12T06:06:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T20:06:43","slug":"an-april-calendar-in-haiku-senryu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/an-april-calendar-in-haiku-senryu\/","title":{"rendered":"An April calendar in haiku\/senryu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>April is National Poetry Month. Here is an abecedarian haiku\/senryu calendar for April:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1st April adolescence \/ fools rush in \/ teenage years<br \/>\n2nd April birthday \/to be or not to be\/Shakespeare baptized (23rd)<br \/>\n3rd April come she will \/ for Easter \/ a new yellow raincoat<br \/>\n4th April dews and don\u2019ts \/ thunder lightening and rain \/ threatening<br \/>\n5th April eggs \/ hardboiled in a basket \/ chocolate foiled<br \/>\n6th April fools \/ forget what they\u2019re like \/ in May and June<br \/>\n7th April gala \/\u2018Singing In the Rain\u2019\/ goofing on \u2018a stairs\u2019<br \/>\n8th April hi jinx \/fooling around \/ in a mud puddle<br \/>\n9th April injustice \/ pouring rain \/ on her sixth birthday<br \/>\n10th April joker \/ cracks \/ a grin<br \/>\n11th April kick off \/ soccer balls\/ hit foolish heads<br \/>\n12th \u201cApril Love\u201d\/ Pat Boone\/ croons<br \/>\n13th April moon \/ fools in love \/ underneath<br \/>\n14th April noon\/ high calorie buffet\/ back for a fourth plate<br \/>\n15th April on again \/off again rain showers \/can\u2019t decide<br \/>\n16th April planting \/peanuts and potatoes\/ both buttered and mashed<br \/>\n17th April quilt \/frost mud slush and gush\/city square\u2019s a mess<br \/>\n18th April rush\/ daffodils \/ visible<br \/>\n19th April stars forecast\/ Oscars out tonight \/ dim tomorrow<br \/>\n20th April torrent \/ all at once \/ gone in a flash<br \/>\n21st April umbrellas \/ tool of the month\/ sold out<br \/>\n22nd April violets\/ my mother\u2019s favorites\/ by mossy stones<br \/>\n23rd April weather \/ May around the corner\/ thank goodness<br \/>\n24th April X rated \/ railroad crossing signal light\/ on for days<br \/>\n25th April yellow lights \/ sign of things to come \/ use caution<br \/>\n26th April zinnias \/ unheard of \/ way too early<br \/>\n27th April en Paris\/ le petite fleur monsieur \/avec plaisir<br \/>\n28th April in Perth \/fall for all its worth\/ down under<br \/>\n29th April prognostication\/Portland,ME to Portland,OR\/ rain<br \/>\n30th April in Brooklyn \/ schlepping in the rain \/ making groceries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is National Poetry Month. Here is an abecedarian haiku\/senryu calendar for April: 1st April&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16617,793,232],"class_list":["post-273790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-paris","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}