Green

first touch of green
spotted through winter’s
dead leaves

 

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Photo: Early Summer, Wisconsin, c.b.w. 2013

Words: haiku, c.b.w. 2020

Edges

frost bites
the fragile edges
of spring

 

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Photo: Frost Detail, Indiana, c.b.w. 2017

Words: haiku, c.b.w. 2018

Fire

 

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Experimenting with a bit of color. 🙂

Source: A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Black Out Poetry: c.b.w. 2017

More Black Out Poetry

Tremble

maple leaves
tremble at the touch
of spring rain

 

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Photo: Maple Leaves, c.b.w. 2015

Words: haiku, c.b.w. 2016

Important But Not

I.
spring’s warm touch
a long to-do list
doesn’t matter

II.
without their graceful
fall winter might
miss its cue

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Image: Autumn Leaves – Georgia O’Keefe, Green Museum

Words: senryu, haiku, c.b.w. 2016

Part of the 2016 April Poem A Day Challenge (via Poetic Asides on Writer’s Digest) for the April 28 prompt: important (blank)