April Challenge
In Australia in April we are deepening into autumn. In Adelaide it is still warm weather. The quinces are ripening on the trees, the shops full of the harvest of summer fruits. Autumn foliage is beginning to appear on the exotic European trees we have planted along our streets. Shops are filling with warm clothes for winter. The car race and the Fringe and Adelaide Festivals have finished bringing to an end the rush of Mad March. The blocked traffic is now flowing freely once more, interstate and international visitors have flown away.
In Japan the cherry blossom season should have reached Kyoto.
Challenge: customs of autumn or flowers of spring. Senryu, haiku, tanka. Please use your imagination.
In Japan the cherry blossom season should have reached Kyoto.
Challenge: customs of autumn or flowers of spring. Senryu, haiku, tanka. Please use your imagination.
Pretty flowers bloom
ReplyDeleteRed, blue, purple popping up
Fragile and precious
fallen leaves
Deletesnowflake blossoms unfurl
petals with green tips
I like to sniff things
ReplyDeleteBees protect the new flowers
Please don't sting my nose
indoor cat
Deletewatching a butterfly
from the window
feather dusters
ReplyDeletebrushing the lake
pampas grass
magic carpet
ReplyDeleteunder tourists' legs
peacock run
white blanket
ReplyDeletenative gum trees
drifting in the mist
directing water flow
ReplyDeleteamongst rain trees
burnt logs
snap, crackle, pop
ReplyDeletebrunch on the deck
with the beatles
When autumn time comes
ReplyDeleteThe leaves fall off the big trees
Why not put them back?
too much hard work
DeleteTrees are very tall
ReplyDeleteAlthough I can't climb them
I watch all the birds.
very sweet
Deletetouch of sadness
ReplyDeletein autumn perfection
thoughts of
wind snow and rain
as winter is approaching
warmer duna
ReplyDeletefetched down
fresh autumn morning
in my brown mapped out hands
ReplyDeleteI crush autumn leaves
in sympathy
green leaves will return
my green hands will not
even the birds sing more sweetly in autumn
ReplyDeletethe honeyed season
the delicate endings-
ReplyDeletecrimson maple
leaves
mark the end of us
arguing over simple things
Syrup comes fom trees
ReplyDeleteMaple makes my breakfast good
Thank you, pretty trees.
Springtime brings flowers
ReplyDeleteRed, yellow, white and purple
I will sniff them all.
In spring I go out
ReplyDeleteAnd pretend I am a bird
As I watch birds fly
on branches
ReplyDeletefanta maple leaves
clinging
to your every word
in search of a spark
riding on the back
ReplyDeleteof a mature agave
three treelings
without trepidation
wildly into each other
in the gully
ReplyDeletea rainbow shower
startles magpies
from a maple tree -
a skeleton of itself
I watch tree branches
ReplyDeleteBend in the fresh gust of wind
They wave like fingers
april fools’ day
ReplyDeletethe crows and magpies
at war
rushing to see
the eagle that isn’t there
april fooled
from the Bindii ginko in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens
ReplyDeletealarmed
breeze from the ducks’ wings
on my cheeks
in the dampness
a fern frond unfurling
me
in the shade house
four boys talking
spiders
botanic garden
the scent of something
that I can’t see