Haiku & other Poetry

Ronovan’s Haiku Challenge #74

So here I go again! Have I ever managed to attend three challenges in a row? Somehow, I doubt it.

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The words Ronovan has put up for the prompt are Wolf & Cake

Again, I’m sticking to the Haiku in English style, with syllable counts of 5, 7, and 5 over the three lines. I’ve used synonyms in place of the word prompts – feast for wolf & dessert for cake. The haiku reads in two sentences, as required, and express an opposite (feast, consume, starve). Don’t read too much into it!

Feast on my heartbeat, consume love’s dessert: my soul.
Consume love’s dessert: my soul is starved of delight

The rose, pictured, is from one of three bushes I have flowering in my garden.

Have a good day.  🙂

Do you need to pick me up on cringe-worthy grammar?  I’m not sure about the apostrophe in love’s, or the use of the colon. (I can live with the actual haiku.)

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Bees & Bugs, Flowers

Eucalyptus platypus

This lovely pale green blossom is borne by the Eucalyptus platypus, a small tree native to Western Australia. We have one in our service road along with the other native plantings. Also known as Platypus Gum, Moort, or Round-leaved Moort.

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This might be a bee, some do have a red abdomen – perhaps a reed bee.

 

The platypus gum is putting on a good show this year. The blossoms sport richer colouring, thus more obvious to the eye against the backdrop of their leathery leaves. I love the claw-like cluster of pods.

Images taken this morning on my walk. (Nokia Lumia 520 windows phone)

Have a good day. 🙂

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Other Stuff

Busy Bees

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I can’t remember the name of this tree. Its blossoms attract hordes of bees, and give Mr R a touch of hay-fever. This year, the load of blossoms was heavier, and the bees kept on coming. Since it’s right by our back door, we have a challenge in remembering to move slowly.  The worst is over, the constant loud humming has ceased.

I managed to catch sunlight on wings. The ant on the leaf was a nice surprise.

(Nokia Lumia 520. windows phone. ISO 100, f/number 2.4, shutter speed 1/119.7 – so the data tells me)

Have a good day. 🙂

 

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