Haiku: Ostara o' Mine

This is a quick Haiku I assembled in a few minutes for my British Poetry class. I decided to focus on the Haiku poems, because it was territory undiscovered.

Ostara is the Goddess of fertility and new beginnings and is a Pagan Goddess which the Judeo-Christian’s incorporated as the holiday of Easter. In a story long passed, she breathed life into a vine and created spring. My inspiration comes from this family pass-me-down story that I have learned all my life. Another story, or continuation of this Haiku, is her creation of the rabbit which could lay eggs.

“Ostara o’ mine,

Breath o’ life into the vine,

Ever always thine.”

From the story of Ostara changing a bird who had been caught doing despicable acts and was cursed with death, the Goddess granted him a second chance and took as his ability to fly while retaining his ability to lay eggs and thus the Easter bunny was created.

 “O bird with death bed

Change thou body into hare

Spread thy egg all 'round.”