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Dirt under my fingernails
Scent of rosemary
Winter's unruly blanket
Shelters spring's tidy green growth
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Great blue heron prints
Raccoon trails under boardwalk
Deer hooves pressed in mud
Hieroglyphics of the wild
What is lost in translation?
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Tiny white flowers
Paint over winter's canvas
Pure as spring snowfall
Come summer, white becomes red
Innocence becomes passion
Submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Format Challenge (Tanka)
6 comments:
love the middle one...we have lost much of the wild and call it progress eh?
Oh, so now it's tanka instead of haiku? I thought tankas were little trucks. You just like to torment poor Fireblossom, don't you, Mouse?
;-)
beautiful tanka...i specially appreciate the images of spring's tiny buds, deer hooves in mud and painting of winter's canvas into spring ~
I love these! I particularly like "hieroglyphics of the wild."
Sounds exactly like my kind of peaceful piece of nature!
You have such a lovely way of bringing things into perspective. My mornings would be much drearier without you.
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