Hi, Gerta -- it's nice to meet you.
As for the "and", I don't think you should drop it if it works for you. I
don't think that by doing so the poem would become three separate
statements - it's just that, to me, the haiku form and the
writer's/reader's knowledge of it join the lines together with something
stronger than a simple conjunction. If one requires a haiku to be a
complete, grammatically correct sentence then, of course, my view is
incorrect.
But, to demonstrate, I take the third sentence in your lovely note:
I was walking against the wind with my
head down and then I noticed the snowdrops;
they are flowering much too early,
it's very warm for January this year.
This could stand as a free-form poem, and stand very firmly in my view.
Trim it a little:
walking against the wind head down
I notice the snowdrops;
flowering much too early,
it's warm for January
and, because it's a poem, you don't miss the cement between the blocks.
Trim it a bit more:
head down in the wind
snowdrops flower early -
warm January
and you have a passable haiku? You'd probably want to trim it just a
little more, but I think I've gone on enough to show you what I mean.
FWMHOIW
John
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