Spring Rain

at twilight

the soft coo of a dove

through a gentle spring rain

Pat

3/23/23

Holding Fast

this garden

once ablaze in color

finally dressed for fall

now stands stark naked

suffering the ravages of winter

holding fast

Pat

1/06/23

Change

This Holly Plant lives just outside my door.

A season in turmoil. The circle gets smaller. Loved ones pass on leaving us behind to sort out the ravages of being. Such loss is soothed only by a long spring. But wounds remain so, as we find a way to live with them.

we are left standing

as december roars on through

this season of life

a little more worn, rumpled

but for this, we are grateful

Pat

12/15/22

Also for Cees Flower of The Day. To view more go here

Autumn Scribbles

bare branches

telling their stories –

autumn scribbles

Pat

11/09/22

Change

highs and lows

on the road to spring –

beginings

…………………

buds hold fast

in turbulent wind

springs promise

………………….

winter browns

slowly loose there grip

spring takes hold

Pat

2/23/22

For Tanka Tuesday over at Colleens where the theme prompt provided by Ken is “Transitions”. To read further or participate go here

Change

under blue gray skies

as twilight takes its leave

and day tumbles into night

a crow flies across a sliver of a moon –

I am lost in thoughts of you…

and our moon gazing nights

Pat

2/09/22

Immortality

with the lilt

of a butterfly

falling leaf

fulfilling the arc of life –

chasing immortality

Pat

3/22/21

#TANKA TUESDAY WEEKLY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 217, #THEMEPROMPT

Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Rainbows – March 18, 2021

Change

first chirps of twilight

as day lingers into night –

spring rounds the corner

Pat

3/22/21

For Ronovan Writes Haiku where the prompt is Chirp and twilight

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 350 CHIRP and Twilight

Intricacies of Spring

the snow covered field of yesterday

is now a patchwork of grass

and barely there snow

now being tended to

by a meandering wave of returning geese –

the intricacies of spring

Pat

2/26/21

Grace

autumn slips away

marred by lush flights of fancy

with no path to grace

Pat R
12/04/20

A Senryu for Ronovan Writes Haiku where the prompt words are Grace & Slip. To participate or to read other entries go here :

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 334 GRACE and Slip.