Flower

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Journey

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge 266 Twisted / Cross

rose

Bee’s on twisted path
cross wild flowers and sharp thorns
thoughts turn to honey

                                       -CJ Holm
Haiku/Senryu Challenge (8/12/19)

https://ronovanwrites.com/2019/08/12/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-266-twistedcross/

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State Highway Roadside

prairie rose

Photo Credit – The First Scout

Prairie Rose flower covered in dust
Hot dry summer, with no cloud going by.
Waiting by the roadside, futile beauty, it seems unjust
Those pretty unseen colors; Soft muffled sigh.

Budding in the Dakota sunshine
Pink summer’s blossom, thriving all alone.
Yellow eyes unblinking set in a harsh design
Roots in sandy soil and littered with stone.

It seems like a squandered struggle
A wonder gone to waste
But I was there to appreciate the trouble
Those others had missed in haste.

-Clarence Holm
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Pretty Violet

"Midnight Memories" Original Acrylic Artwork By Stuart Glazer www.stuartglazer.com

“Midnight Memories”
Original Acrylic Artwork By Stuart Glazer
http://www.stuartglazer.com

Pampered plants lives indoors,
Never facing natures might.
Forced to bloom forevermore,
On the edge of light.

Lived a life without peril,
Never choosing, just kept along.
Displayed in soil completely sterile.
Wondering when her life went wrong.

-Clarence Holm