My April Haiku Challenge

Back at the beginning of the month I kind of accepted the challenge of April being Poetry Month in which the more foolhardy poets and would-be poets undertake to write a poem a day. Never a prolific wannabe, I did limit the strain on myself by saying that it would probably be a Haiku a day. There has been one other along the way, and although not yet at the half-way point, I thought I would post what I have so far -in case that's as far as I get or I fall off the edge of the world or something!
Remember, I also got in first by saying I was not expecting to produce anything other than stuff to work on later.

wind and rain all day             two perfect rosebuds
hitting the magnolia              one glistening with dew, one
the day it flowered               snug in morning frost

the rain that brings to life      spooky moon, weak sun
hidden colours in a dry stone     snowflakes in a strong north wind -
does nothing for drab clothes     nothing moves the rainbow

wise indeed who knows             reading replaces sleep
where to scatter the ashes        when fireworks or near thunder
in this nor' easter               leave the mind in fear

the rhododendron                  men with blowers
blushed to see its snow veil      dancing leaves across the road
tattered by the wind              while traffic waited

after the hailstorm               the fading bracts
a new moon in the acer            waited and waited to greet
and a dying sun                   the new arrivals

a soft staccato                   a drift of hail stones
wingbeat of a startled bird -     and the back steps glaciated
no greater sound that day         in the grip of spring