Amputated Moon

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Apr 27

Azalea

Category: Tanka and Haiku

 

 

one white bloom arrives

among spent-blossoms and leaves

as April departs

 

 

Pamela Olson, 4/27/08

 

 

This haiku was written for the prompt

“Flowering” at One Single Impression.

 

18 Comments so far

  1. MyBellavia April 27th, 2008 8:34 am

    And we’re off! I love how one bloom leads the way and others follow.

  2. Raven April 27th, 2008 10:38 am

    Lovely photo - even the weary old blossoms look beautiful and the new flowering is radiant among them. Nicely done.

  3. lissa April 27th, 2008 10:45 am

    a single flower can change the whole atmosphere, nicely done

  4. qualcosa di bello April 27th, 2008 11:41 am

    a beautiful ode to april’s last hurrah!

  5. TeriC April 27th, 2008 2:44 pm

    Oh my gosh, never even thought that April was almost over. The perfect words for the month changeover.

  6. maryt/theteach April 27th, 2008 4:46 pm

    Lovely, Pamela! Thanks for visiting!

  7. WillThink4Wine April 27th, 2008 6:22 pm

    How sad. We wait so long only to have it depart so soon.

  8. Noah April 27th, 2008 6:33 pm

    Beautiful, yet sad. I guess that everything lovely must come to an end sometime.

  9. SandyCarlson April 27th, 2008 7:43 pm

    April gives way to those other beauties of this season, to be sure! It’s all so fleeting.

  10. Andrée April 27th, 2008 8:05 pm

    I’m pretty sure that your poem can be applied to so many different scenes in life. As things die and fade, new hope grows.

  11. Ralph Murre April 27th, 2008 10:15 pm

    Yours is, quite simply, one of the most consistently good sites.
    Verse and visuals are always first-rate, so we come to expect it, and sometimes fail to tell you that you’re appreciated.

  12. Vixen April 27th, 2008 11:04 pm

    Lovely and true words. Great writing.

  13. Tumblewords April 28th, 2008 10:34 am

    Nicely done!

  14. One More Believer April 29th, 2008 5:14 pm

    it is almost as a cloud on a stem floating… beautiful ku and photo

  15. texasblu April 29th, 2008 9:08 pm

    One by one…

    Excellent!

  16. patois April 29th, 2008 10:51 pm

    This is a pure delight. The photo is spectacular, and the ode to it is marvelous.

  17. zoya gautam April 30th, 2008 1:39 pm

    ..”one white bloom arrives

    among spent-blossoms and leaves”..(possibly that’s how poets keep crafting out songs)thank u..

  18. storyteller May 4th, 2008 10:49 am

    Yez … my white azalea did the same thing. Lovely haiku this week! Sorry to be visiting so late ;–)
    Hugs and blessings,

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