path leads to nectar ~
a hummingbird fantasy ~
stored within a seed ~
once all winter’s shadows pass ~
flowers start seductive dance
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#springfever
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Beautiful! I love it! 🙂
Thank you so much, Jonathan! The trees are budding here. I’m hopeful…Lol
Have a great day!😊
Yes, spring is springing! You have a wonderful day, too!
It makes my heart glad! I will do that!😊
The seductive dance of flowers is such an allure to those tiny flutterers! I love your wordsmithing.
Thank you, Keith! I plant container flowers to lure them to my deck each year. I love watching them.
We watch them out our kitchen window. They are marvelous little engines that flutter and hover.
They are! Have a great night, Keith.
Verbal economy, ripe with meaning, blossoming spring, abundant cornucopia.
That comment deserves its own publication…
Thank you, Dermott! I’ve been working a lot with haiku, tanka and rictameter (new to me) to sharpen my writing pencil.
I’m learning from you although I’m not great at form. Too lazy, I think.
I learn far more from you than you ever will from me. I’m finding the forms addictive and beneficial. Rictameter, in particular, because it starts and ends with the same two syllables, forces me to think about a poem as a complete thought from the start. They are challenging to write.
I’m not sure I like structure so much. Since I have always been, philosophically, an anarchist.
I get that about you…Lol
I think your 50 word shorts do the same thing.
Anarchic?
Yes…Lol
You are one of my favorite rebels!
Ooh, Missus, you are awful
Lol…
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an anarchist, in the truest sense. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”.
It’s a great quote. I tell my children that the collective is just a box people choose to shut themselves in.
My two daughters, Hannah (30) and Holly (26) were both obsessed with fashion at an early age, partly because when they stayed with their dad they met a lot of fashion models. I always told them, fashion follows, style leads. It’s not quite as sublime as Emerson but it tells the same story
I’m going to share that one with my daughter. She will appreciate it.
I hope they appreciate it. I know my style choices often embarrassed my girls – I brought home a truckload of hip hop gear for them, bought in Manhattan’s Yellow Rat Bastard in the late ’80s and they were mortified. It took a year before they started mining the box. They were still way ahead of the herd though. Meanwhile their dad was wearing bespoke Irish tweed suits when his contemporaries were sporting Prada.
Maybe then didn’t at the time, but I’ll bet they do looking back on it. You taught them to be independent thinkers. It’s a great gift.
Oh they copped it alright. I’m very proud of my girls
Anarchic, you mean?
In the best sense of the term…Lol
This one certainly speaks to cabin fever and the desire to get out in God’s beauty and revel in it a bit! A lovely piece as always, Tanya. Hey, how did the fundraising project go?
Steve
Thank you, Steve! The book is up on Amazon. I have great reviews on it so far and a few more to come…I hope. Sales continue to trickle in. I need to spend some time seeking out additional PR for the project. I have a review coming up in a poetry magazine soon. It just takes time.
Time and patience, no doubt! It will all happen for the good you hope for, Tanya. I’m proud of you and your efforts with this project! Meanwhile, it is time to “Exec. Produce” another “Tanya Cliff” bomb film…
Boom! (drop the mic…)
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I am writing the next one now! Have a wonderful weekend, Steve!😊
Hope your weekend was good. Sorry about Wisconsin…Had an okay weekend. Can’t wait on the next story…
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I was still proud of them, and it was a great game! The weekend was good and busy. Have a great evening, Steve!😊
I’m sure they played with full intensity! My weekend was a bit disappointing, but hope for better to come. A belated thanks and you enjoy your day, my friend! 🙂
It was sooooo close! I will enjoy my day. You do that as well!😊
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Great photo and Tanka Tanya, welcoming in the early days of spring.
Thank you, Davy! The trees are budding around here. I’m ready for it!
Enjoy Tanya 🙂
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Thank you for the share, Tiffany!❤
Love your work. I must read my emails. It’s been a bit emotional with all that’s been going on. Getting back to reading and writing now. Sending you love my sweet friend. X
Thank you, again! Sending love and hugs back your way!❤😊
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Thank you so much for the share, Natalie!
My pleasire❌⭕
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