Thursday 31 March 2011

haiku

a weary war-god
set to guard sheep
for 11 months


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March - the month of Mars, the Roman god of war - comes to an end. April - the month of "opening" the earth - takes over. An ancient Danish name for April is "Sheep-month", the month when sheep and cattle again was let out to grass. Another name was "Grass-month".

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