Tag: Wildflowers
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Poppies
What are we?Why are we?Answers no easier with ageBut maybe the questions are clearerLife clings tenaciouslyWherever it canConstantly striving to beA poppy, a bird, you, or meSo much improbability, entropyIn Life’s TreeYet so much defiant braveryYes, I will exist!And do my bestTo use my giftsTo wonder, and discoverTo meet the gaze of a wild creatureAnd…
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Irises
You hoped the irisesMight dispel our lonelinessBut they couldn’tIrisesMy first memories of youTinged with sadnessBut now I see youEverywhere, in the wildAnd you make me smile photos by me, art by Kawase Hasui
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Flower or Fruit?
Which blossoms will become fruit?But for the busyness of a bird or a beeWhich will fall silentlyInto death’s obscurityWe enter this life of uncertaintyWith no guaranteesNature offers us so many mirrorsOf our instincts and frailtiesIn nature I can find my spirituality If you look closely, there is a bee in the photo!
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Early Blooms
Wildflowers in January?!So contraryTo my northeast rootsSometimes I still amA stranger in a strange landIn California (Cardamine Californica, “milkmaid”. The first wildflowers of the years.)
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Late Blooms, a Haiku Poem
Across a vast crowdYou wave, smile. Rushing, franticI couldn’t reach youThe dream came for yearsI couldn’t find you, or myselfIn my own soulNow I can, MommaTangled complexitiesUnraveled by TimeSurviving seedsFlowers unfolding, smilingBeckoning with voice Wild forget-me-nots
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Neurodivergent Haiku
It’s hard to imagine a more unabashed or showy flower than the California Poppy. And they’re tough—well adapted to long, dry summers. Once in a great while, however, a plant puts out a cream colored variant. As soon as I saw this flower it struck me as a perfect expression of what it so often…
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The Nature Psyche, #8. Eco-Haiku
Why is greenery In scenery so conducive To dreamery? The kinship mystery We share in our genes with trees Ferns, flowers, and bees Eco-stalgia Wistful, darkening, evolving Toward what future? Echo-stalgia Haunting reverberations Of extinction Eco-hope Where to find, how to create? Small acts, every day
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The Nature Psyche, Post #1
Combining beautiful images (mostly my own) with thoughtful words, including the occasional original haiku.
Haumanu Speaks/PoetiCalli 