Winter's wild romance
dark, moonless nights
beguiling the artist,
confusing the traveler,
on the way home

#TankaThursday romance

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birds chirping
in the eucalyptus
me swaying gently
in the hammock
I turn a page

#TankaThursday page

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I promise
long after the sun sets
when the woke petals
will have withered and dried
I'll stay the same

#wss366 woke

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white of whiskers
and faded of fur
in the background
discreet drumbeats
of goodbye

#TankaThursday drumbeats

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rogue ruler
hastening the fall
of a dying empire
but the more guilty masses
that let him

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lucky shot
on blue-sky Thursday
a jubilant thrush
in time
for my camera

#TankaThursday blue sky

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on a hot air balloon
under a blue sky
a fleeting moment
between this
and that

#TankaThursday blue sky

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from a treasure chest
of warm memories
granny's muffler
stealing all the cold
from winter

#haikufeels steal
#dailyhaikuprompt cold full moon
#wss366 chest

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a creeping desert
of desolation
then suddenly
the true magic
of green leaves

#TankaThursday true

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in the longest shadow
cast by Winter's sun
I struggle between
true halves
of myself

#TankaThursday true
#vss365 struggle

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now and again
a napping kitty
and the burden
of having to tiptoe
around the house

#TankaThursday burden

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in other news
coo after coo
a drenched hummingbird
singing in the rain
breaks my tender heart 💔

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small finds
on my evening walk
a magenta scarf
caught
in the rose bush

#vss365 magenta

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an apple a day
repels the doctor
but rhinitis
makes a joker
out of me 🤧

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autumn
of achievable dreams
finally settling down
to knitting mufflers
for granny

#vss365 achievable

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forget-me-not
granny's precious
old trench coat
a tired button
coming lose

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warped trees
stripped by autumn 🍂 🍁
the dendrophile
surviving
without momentum

#TankaThursday momentum

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foggy Halloween
at the lumber yard
how the cursed dendrophile
watches and watches
and writhes away

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#haikufeels writhe
#TankaThursday curse
#dailyhaikuprompt foggy

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the gradual erasure
of granny's garden
weeds and unseen weevils
bumblebees
hovering overhead

#TankaThursday erase
#vss365 unseen
#wss366 weed

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time and tide
erasing me
'tis the same book
but I'm hardly
the same

#TankaThursday erase

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sundown at base camp
by rancid moonlight
a lost scout 
counts pinecones
with bare feet

#TankaThursday pinecone

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Cappadocia skyline with colourful hot air balloons

Cappadocia
the irresistible allure
of a skyline
of unearthly heights
and hot air balloons

#vss365 unearthly

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Flying bird

adjusting
to the subtle whims
and caprices of time
flying
never to return

#TankaThursday subtle

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