Cardinal flowersflag down thirsty hummingbirds;fizzy lifting drinkstransfix them; straw tongues sip andrecall drinks before feeders.
Category: nature
red pine prayers (senryu)
Red pine fingers reachoffer praise in willow’s churchin a too blue world
Doodads all over the place
The new banner features two gifts my sons and daughter in-law gave me for Mother’s day. The thing that looks like a house on the stump is a butterfly house from older son. About 2 feet to the right is that beautiful orange volunteer that draws butterflies from near and far. The gardening frog is…
Kerfe’s RWG 9 — Music of the Night
Far-flung, afield, dusk travel’s magnet draws moonglow painted shadow space. I pause to note rough sounds cease asnight’s homely adjustment commences.Soft rustles, steps, flutterings stitch air,litter low, just over there, now whispers here.Sense a thousand ears tuning their stationsfrom light’s brash cymbal-clapped squawksto Hammond B of night’s sweet clarinets. top image by Dokkar Kerfe is…
Snow in May
I am expecting rain today; looking out, I see cottonwood snow.
Tanka Tuesday 319 — Kismet
© Terri Webster Schrandt It happens at every peeper’s first song — velvet blossoms call. Unfurled at the lake, I again remember your face receding. ~love~ Like a burr I’m unaware I carry, it settles on me. Dwindling as it disperses, yet doomed; planted with its velvet nightshade. Memuente form created by Kerfe for Colleen’s…
Tanka Tuesday 317 — Two Tankas
I watch deer at dusk out my back slider before turning on the lights; as dark shrouds them, I wonder are they still there — or just ghosts? Breakfast cafe fare of chai and vegan croissant, sitting across from my son; infinity rests with us in this moment’s food and talk. Colleen Chesebro is the…
Tao Talk 