kingfishers eat well as ponds shrink and minnows swarm — cicada’s sing duckweed and lotus leaf blankets bob in the wind — turtles sun on logs wrens eat water oats growing amongst late lilies – ants climb sturdy stalks sunset colors leave moonrise against silhouettes – river frog kerplops morning…
Category: flora
#Haikai Challenge #145: wild iris (ayame)
Wild purple iris on the path to the water one midsummer’s day Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge. Frank says: Like the mayfly, the bloom of [the wild iris (ayame)] lasts but a single day. What better exemplar of transience can we ask for? This week, write the haikai poem…
What do you see # 34 — Mother Bear
Mother Bear wandered these woods for a good hundred years. Her cubs were many and had populated the region, valleys and mountains, and beyond. Mother Bear was tired. It was time for her to rest. One day in early fall, she fell asleep under a majestic beech tree surrounded by oak and did not wake…
dVerse — A day’s rain
“Gladiolus in the Rain,garden flower,pink and white,” by Valeria Belogurova You know it comes, the stage is set Sky turns to grey, wind changes gear Hushed hiss or pour from sky – all’s wet A sound you see, a sight you hear. Pink blossoms pray, “Please, not too hard!” Worms curl and dance, green…
Doodads — 5/18/20
Update: Curiosity got the best of me, so I went to Old Faithful YouTube and found out what it is. It says they need to be at least 3 years old to blossom, but mine is only a year old (or a year after planting the store-bought plant.)
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