For Frank Tassone’s Haikai challenge. These lilies are typical of the wild and garden flowers in this part of the world and it’s the flower in all the holy pictures and holy statues of my childhood.
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Lily in the shade
pearl in gloomy waters glows
pale-faced moonflower.
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Oh! My favourite lily, and the most beautiful colour.
Haiku is great too 😉💜
It’s quite a magnificent lily. We had lots of them in the garden but decided to leave them where they were. One of the cats was buried beneath them so it wouldn’t have been right to pinch his flowers.
No he would be most put out 💜
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Wonderful, Jane! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Thanks for the prompt Frank 🙂
I like the association with the moon. 🙂
White flowers in the shade often have that luminous look about them 🙂
looks very similar to a peace lily… beautiful.
I went with azalea, because I have the shrub.
I could be a peace lily. It’s certainly the one that we used to see in church for holy days.
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#Haiku Happenings #1 (4/2/18): Jane Dougherty’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!
Thank you, Frank 🙂
My pleasure, Jane! 🙂
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It does glow like a pearl. You clarified a wondering I had…when I looked up Easter lily in Wikipedia this is the type they showed and the one called ‘Easter Lily’ in North America is listed under its Latin name….. Happy spring! Ours is still dawdling but on its way.
Yes, it is the same one. I’d forgotten that name. Happy Spring to you too. I know it will take a bit longer to get to your parts, but it’s on its way 🙂
I like the “pearl in gloomy waters” metaphor.
Thank you!