Tanka Tuesday 323 — Purple

Varied textures about Each garden in seasons Surely speak to senses States of wake and sleeping Everything under sun Lives to die; lives again Of bees and butterflies Favorites based on taste Yellow pollen pockets Or straw sipping nectar Unvaried their choices Revel in colored fills Pretty purple calls them Universal guidance Rely on divination…

dVerse — dreamland

Dreams are messages from home. –Clarissa Pinkola-Estes Vines string the pathway of Ethereal mist day, softened Songs of gentian butterflies Silvery wings of faeries Enormous sunflowers Lily pads; leaping leopard frogs Ogling bunnies with twitchy noses Fine fern fronds fondle furry ears Yarrow sway with rose mallow On a spongy marsh ledging Umbrellas glide, held…