Garden Songs – This Week in Photos – June 25 – July 1, 2023
Garden Songs – This Week in Photos
June 25 – July 1, 2023
©Lynda McKinney Lambert
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PHOTOS and 2 Tanka Poems
Miss Opal, June 29, 2023. She just came back home from having dental surgery. Ouch! Photo courtesy of Angel Yaromey.
Top Photo _ Our Lilies are in full bloom this week.I have many varieties._Bottom Right: The Vintage Wheelbarrow with Impatiens blooming.
_Bottom, Left: The view down our sidewalk, now that the tall White Locust had to be cut down. It had grown so high it was a danger due to the power lines.
Photos by Angel Yaromey.
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Today’s GARDEN SONGS are TANKA Poems.
A tanka poem has 5 lines.
The syllable count for each line is 5, 7, 5, 7, 7
Try one! They are fun to write.
No title at the top of the poem.
No capitalization at beginning of lines.
Select a theme from nature, without a mention of the season.
Third line is a PIVOT line – the poem shifts at this point.
Do not write a sentence – each line is significant it it[s own without trying to write a sentence.
Avoid little words that take up space – every word should COUNT.
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#1
lofty White Locust
dancing leaves in mid-day breeze
carefree, healthy, strong
limbs growing in power lines
dangerous situation.
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#2
flowing creek murmurs
fantasia in D minor
soft grey summer rain
red-breasted robins tweeting
two smart cats watch from window
Miss Bessie and Mr. Inca watching from my office window. .Photo by Lynda Lambert.
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©Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2023.
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