Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Cardinals


Flickr Creative Commons Photo by Sean


cardinals hiding 
in a bare-limbed winter tree--
camouflage failure

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2015



11 comments:

  1. What a wonderful photo to go along with that poem! For sure, a camo failure. And a good lesson for middle school: there's beauty in just letting yourself be who you are! Embrace the camouflage failures!

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  2. Another tanka today. They seem to keep the doctor away.

    the dog
    sighs in his sleep --
    our contentment
    cannot
    be gathered and held

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    1. Even here, where we try so hard to gather and hold, the words slip through our fingers like water...

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  3. Yes, Mary Lee, like water. Dogs have taught me a lot about contentment; how it arrives like an exhaled breath at the moment I let go, not so much when I hold on.

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    1. This comment feels like it could be a poem in and of itself. My dogs have taught me much, too.

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  4. Mary Lee, my humble offering today that took me many scratched pads to come up with something that made expressed what I felt about a nature walk. White Space Moments at http://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2015/12/white-space-moments.html.

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  5. On your poem-I love the bit of ironic humor that you always seem to bring to situations-Great expressive idea that sprung from a digital image.

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  6. A hard, hard day in my urban school.
    "Prey"

    Blue striped whirlybird
    circles, swoops, circles again
    adolescents kick run shout
    surreptitiously embrace
    Am I the only one
    who wonders what prey
    this giant bird
    is seeking?

    (C) Carol Wilcox, 2015

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    1. What wonderful images, Carol. And the verbs! Hoping today was better. As much as I love it, this teaching gig is hard on the soul sometimes. Not always flowers and full bellies; sometimes it's dry bones and thin soup.

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  7. Mary Lee- That red. Glorious. Even if it is a camouflage failure.!

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