beautifulyou

Thank you for the comment. Yes, they are nature's diamonds, glistening in the freshly fallen snow.

To viewers:

Please give me your understanding of the last piece:

"loud feathered thud
- flight into eternity
deceptive glass pane"

Haiku provides a sketch, allowing the reader to complete the picture. What is your picture for this piece?
Thanks!

Orientalkoru

Thank You!
You made my day.
Since I wrote that particular piece of Haiku a few years ago, I was always uncertain whether the meaning would be clear to others. Thank goodness, someone finally spelt it out for me in exactly the same way I experienced it. I was not concerned about the other pieces since I thought their meaning would be clear to others.

During my university studies in Canada in the sixties, I had a summer job as a sleeping car porter with a passenger train company, the Canadian National Railway, which ran from coast to coast. My duties were to look after the welfare of the passengers.

On one trip, the train stopped in the middle of the Canadian wilderness and remained there for a long time (possibly to accommodate the passage of another train or some other reason). I was sitting in the porter's room which had a big glass window. As I sat there, I heard a loud thud against the window after which I saw a dead bird on the ground close to the train under the window. I pitied the poor dead bird. It was used to the freedom of the airspace of the wilderness. The stationary train was an unexpected intrusion which cost the poor bird its life. It was very sad.

Orientalkoru's was similar. I wonder if anyone else had a similar experience. I had thought that the clues in the haiku - "feathered", "eternity', "glass pane" would be sufficient to visualise the scene without actually witnessing it. Perhaps, I was wrong. I invite any other comments.