a past love affair ignited me to the core a hollow echo a forgettable season of hot embers to cold ash #TankaThursday#5lines#Tanka#TankaPoem#Tanka57577#draft

Gardenias remind him of his mother white butterfly moth a sweet spirit visiting touching more than his hand #TankaThursday#5lines#mpy#TankaPoem#poetry

Hurricane lantern illuminates interior of the log cabin drawing moth to its radiance sepia wings dance aflutter #TankaThursday#tanka#5lines

Do not apply anthropomorphic metaphors: the trees are grander and more strange than you imagine #5lines#tanka

TKtomkimmerer.bsky.socialSep 13, 2024 11:16pm

It's autumn! Fall colors are not a passive response to cold, but the result of an active time in the life of a tree, in which complex behaviors withdraw nutrients from the leaves and store them in the stem and roots. Over the few weeks, we'll show the details of autumn biology. What are you seeing?

The stormy sea was in restless frenzied turmoil nature's wrath unleashed tempestuous gales whipped up waves that assailed fishing vessel #TankaThursday#tanka#5lines

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Crickets sound the call for Summer's demise, hidden in fat, wild shadows of overgrown gardens that beg for pruning shears and quiet. #TankaThursday#Tanka#5lines

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sometimes in an almost silent night I hear the wind playing a faint melody in the roof turbine #5lines#mpy#poem#TankaThursday#poetry