Category: flora

MLMM –Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, February 27 2019 Morning Glory

Chevrefeuille is hosting Heeding Haiku today and says: This week I have a nice theme for you to create your haiku or haibun with … Morning Glory … Create your haiku or haibun following the classical rules (5-7-5 syllables; seasonword; cutting word; deeper meaning; interchangeable 1st and 3rd line; a moment as short as the…

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My Pledge

  Carved from a branch from our village olive tree, stained with the flora of our fields, gilt with the gold from our mountain streams, and blessed by crones who live in our caves, I pledge these to you, as symbol of all that I am. My love, sprung from nature, will reside With you,…

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Under the orchid’s spell

Orchidaceae — Chloraea disoides Lindl Fandango’s FOWC is lethargic, the Word of the Day Challenge is envision, and Paula’s 3 Things Challenge words are:  cousin, folder, iguana As lethargic as Daria was feeling this morning, she did not envision having a very fun time at botanical gardens with her cousin today. Romo, a photographer, had…

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Weeping Willow

Winter’s ice cubes cling, infesting willow branches that twist, snap, and fall. A picture can’t do this justice.  The tree is massive and so is the limb that fell. Below are a couple photos of the pine tree also in the yard.  Other parts of the country are used to ice storms, but we aren’t. …

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d’Verse — Haibun Monday: January

Today’s offering is a haibun written for hostess of the evening’s d’Verse, Kim’s, prompt of January. Waking up at eleven, looking out at another repetition of anemic feebleness that washes the life out everything. Invisible beyond grey, clouds prevent any instance of ROYGBIV. Eyes strain to delineate blah from blah. To say it is preferable…

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