Haiku challenge: Fast & Lane

For Ronovan’s weekly challenge.

 

how quickly

night falls in the dark lane

where shadows grow

folding wings spreading wings

feet pad between dusk and dawn

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Night is

night is a song

of cricket chirrup

and the invisible wind

in dark leaves

murmuring

tanka for a moonlit sunset

impatient moon

rising through glowing golden

fields of sunset

with all this light no wonder

the birds will not be silent

Tanka Tuesday: Hunt & Find

I finally caught sight of a couple of deer down by the stream. They crossed to our side and ran through the trees to where next door’s meadow begins. A tanka for Colleen’s Tuesday challenge.

Through the trees, deer leap,

red light in green shade flickers,

then in silence, gone.

I search the still branches, find

memories of wild beauty.

Spring poplars

It’s Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday again. This week’s theme words are Lead & Keep.

Poplar leaves tremble,

brisk spring wind blowing, boughs bend,

leaden river flows.

I keep my face in the sun,

Catch the gold, paint the morning.

Tanka: Clouds & Spring

This is for Colleen Chesebro’s  Tanka Tuesday poetry challenge.

When spring blossom falls

we turn faces to the sun—

mud a pink carpet.

Reflected in puddles, clouds

colour of cherry blossom.

Tanka: Fire & Rain

This is for Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday challenge. A good word choice for this changeable time of year.

Winter sky afire,

sun blazing, a funeral ship—

morning comes, ash grey.

Blaze holds back the bitter cold,

still I long for soft spring rain.

Tanka: Spring Sparrows

The trees aflutter,

soft brown wings beat the sunlight,

I listen for spring.

Piping notes fill bare branches,

snow’s pale glow a memory.

Remembering

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Dead day

stretches dry fingers

into November

the bitter mud of the Somme

beneath its nails