young red leaf, on a sapling in Spring, slowly grows green. doesn't it know it should start green, and turn red in the Fall?
Living Backwards [Tanka]
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Tag Archives: leaf
Well-lit Leaf [Haiku]
big, busy leaf:
light bullets through,
too fast to process.
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Canopy [Haiku]
the creek bed is wide, yet dark by dome of trees that stretch for light.
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Leaf Enlightened [Common Meter]
I stared, and stared, into a leaf
until my vision changed.
And I could see the whole, wide world
so artfully arranged.
The leaf, it mapped my universe
from atom to the sprawl.
Compressed, layer-on-layer, there
was one and, at once, all.
But before I could grasp all that
this vision truly meant,
a gust of wind did catch that leaf,
and fluttering it went.
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Faux-Autumn [Haiku]
two-season tropics: rain-slick yellow leaves fib that it's autumn
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Flame Dance [Haiku]
saffron-tinged leaves languidly wobble to mimic the dance of flame
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Evergreen [Haiku]
the evergreen’s
time to shine: when the last
leaf has fallen
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Autumn City [Haiku]
leaves are falling
throughout the city, &
someone sweeps them up
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Foggy Autumn [Haiku]
foggy Autumn day.
wet leaves flutter downward,
in surrender
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All in One [Haiku]
one autumn tree
contains all the colors:
spring green to winter ____
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