cultivated plots
are a gardener’s cachet
but Gaia’s first blooms
burst through concrete, cling to walls
vagabonds in dapper hues
~kat
A Tanka for Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge using synonyms only of the prompt words, Grow: bloom, burst, cultivate & Honor: cachet.
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April 3rd, 2018 at 9:23 pm
Absolutely gorgeous! Well done, Kat. ❤
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April 3rd, 2018 at 9:27 pm
Thank you! ❤️🌷🌺🌸🌼🌻❤️
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April 4th, 2018 at 10:10 am
Vagabonds in dapper hues… love it!
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April 4th, 2018 at 11:15 am
Thanks Kathryn. I like that line too. 🙂
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April 4th, 2018 at 7:02 pm
Always. Excellent. 😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀
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April 4th, 2018 at 11:27 pm
Thank you Dorna 😊
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April 8th, 2018 at 4:22 pm
I love the last line too. I’ve been called a Vagabond and I’m not sure it was a compliment!
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April 8th, 2018 at 4:42 pm
Thank you. It is definitely not always a glowing compliment. But I do love weeds. 😉
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April 9th, 2018 at 2:05 am
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April 9th, 2018 at 4:48 am
Not weeds! That’s speedwell and it’s lovely! Like your tanka, Kat 🙂
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April 9th, 2018 at 8:33 am
My landscaper calls them weeds…but I think they are lovely. 🙂
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April 9th, 2018 at 8:36 am
I’ve read the expression ‘speedwell blue’ to describe eye colour in one of the nineteenth century classics. It’s a lovely colour.
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April 9th, 2018 at 8:37 am
It is. Thank you for telling me about the Speedwell. You are right…it is no ordinary weed. 😉
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April 9th, 2018 at 8:39 am
I find it easier to pull out the ‘weeds’ that produce a lot of not very attractive foliage and or prickles, a tiny nondescript flower followed by a load of fluff that spreads the stuff everywhere. Otherwise, anything that behaves itself is welcome 🙂
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April 15th, 2018 at 12:02 pm
I love this Kat. They do have a mind of there own and show up in the most unexpected places, spreading their beauty. Nicely done!
Pat
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April 15th, 2018 at 1:44 pm
Yes they do. They have tenacity! A very good thing.
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April 15th, 2018 at 2:07 pm
Indeed!!
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