coral blush, my favorite among my mother-in-law’s decades-old geranium plants, December 2008, photo © 2008-2009 by ybonesy. All rights reserved.
in february
four potted geraniums
sit by a window
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It is the way to live through winters, in a window, rooted to the temporary, yes?
That was beautiful.
Thank you!
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This is absolutely beautiful! I love the close-up delicate features…
You inspired me with this photo (haiku):
springtime Valentine
blushes from the palm to cheek
sun-kissed with dew
I also posted it here:
http://twitter.com/alotus_poetry
…as well as my LJ (eventually as this week had been hectic!).
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Beautiful, yb! It’s up to 33 degrees here in Minneapolis today but windy. The cool breezes blow off the melting snowbanks and it still feels cold. I like the veins and the blood reds in your photograph.
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yb: There’s nothing more to be said of your photo and haiku …
Beautiful … just beautiful.
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Thank you all for the kind words. 33 degrees, QM? That’s pretty warm, relative to the lows you’ve seen this winter.
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The image and your haiku are beautiful.
My grandmother always had geraniums, and I love them.
Thank you for sharing your world.
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Beautiful!
I was thinking that perhaps you & QM could put together & offer a calendar for next year. You know, mix it up with photos & haiku posts. You have so many to choose from! I for one, would be thrilled to have one! Great stuff & a smile with every flip of the month. D
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diddy, thank you. ybonesy and I were just talking at our meeting this week about how we both wish we could do this full time! We are constantly having to make decisions about how much we can get done and where to put our energies. But I’ll make a note and maybe if we start early enough at the end of this year, we might be able to get something together. ybonesy and I are working on a couple of new projects for 2009 that we are excited about. More as we go along on those. And thank you for your positive encouragement!
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The image and your haiku are great. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for visiting, Tarts.
And yes, diddy, thanks for the encouragement. Great idea, too! We do have some fun projects in the works, and I tell you, if this were a full-time job and not a moonlighting one 8) I’d be up for producing so many different things. But keep those ideas coming; maybe this year we can get to some of them—calendar, note cards…hmm…now I’ll probably start really noodling on this idea.
suz, geraniums are a kind of plant I associate with mothers and grandmothers. We always let ours die each year and buy another bunch to plant into our outdoor pots, but this year Jim brought them all into the potting shed (a sort of greenhouse; it’s heated, and it’s where Baby the Bullsnake lives). The geraninums have not stopped blooming since we brought them in. They love it in that room.
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Less is more. Wonderful.
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YB, your marvelous haiku and photo make my heart just ACHE for Spring to arrive! Your comment on Geraniums reminded me of a memorial service for an elderly lady friend. The front of the small chapel was banked with many geraniums in small pots. At the end of a joyful celebration of this gentle woman’s life, her daughter closed with an invitation for each one present to take one of the geraniums which were cuttings from her mother’s plants. Of course, everyone was most happy to have this small remembrance of their friend! It was the loveliest memorial I have ever attended!
floral reminders
of a friendship that lasted
and lingers on still
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oliverowl, what a great way to honor her life!
I love the smell of geraniums. It is a sort of musty smell, unless of course it’s a lemon geranium. But I like the regular ones.
I realized I had a mistake in my haiku, and all this time I didn’t even notice it. On my paper where I wrote the haiku, it went:
But when I typed it out, I accidentally wrote:
Just tonight I looked at the middle verse, “four potted plants,” and realized, whoa, how did I do that? And yet, I liked it. Still, I went back to my original haiku, the one I wrote on paper. I hope no one minds, as it was a mistake.
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Lovely photograph, I like the softness of it.
“Plants” is somehow better for me…
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Yes, I like it, too. The simplicity. What an odd thing to happen, to unconsciously change my haiku and then find that I’m having a hard time going back.
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That happens to me too, yb. When I start composing poems, what I write on paper transforms itself unconsciously when I type it! @_@ lol
However, I really do the ‘ku the way it is. It’s simple and sweet and adds a feeling of calm. 🙂
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