sun through windswept clouds
a bumblebee emerges
from my flowers
sun through windswept clouds
a duet of fire and air
keeps the rain away
a bumblebee emerges
from the last rose on the bush
rusted petals swirl
from my flowers
scent of summer vanishes
stolen by the wind
Kim M. Russell, 11th August 2019
My response to Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #97 depth of a flower (CD Crossroads)
It was my birthday this weekend, it’s been very windy in the UK, and our meditation is a Crossroads episode, in which the challenge is to create a fusion haiku from two given haiku about windy weather and flowers, and then write a troiku from the fusion haiku:
windy weather
calling the flowers by name
each nods
depth of a flower
flying away with the bee
some mystery
© Jane Reichhold (source: A Dictionary of Haiku)
writing in north norfolk 
A most Happy Birthday Kim 😀
I hope your day was sweet scented and filled with all kinds of pleasures, love and laughter – and that all of your wishes come true, not just for the special day, but the year (for surely we must celebrate each day as the birth of new? … unless we do “un-days” i.e. don’t celebrate for the counting of years 😉 )
lovely haiku and troiku Kim –
it seems we both fell into the wind this weekend …
I really enjoy the idea of a bumblebee emerging and the swirls – whether from the wind or the bee, or petals fading and falling … it’s just lovely and delicious … and fire and air to keep the rain away is also bold and delightful … and of course, the idea of summer’s fading scents … it holds the quiet reflections of life and time passing ….
but I do hope you don’t think of yourself as a faded rose my friend ….
enjoy the day’s twilight hours and here’s hoping you have a fine week to come 🙂
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Thank you so much for the birthday greetings, Pat! That was the windiest one I’ve ever had. We took a train to Ely for the day, a small city on an island in the East Anglian Fens, If we hadn’t spent most of the time inside the cathedral, two museums and a little cafe, we might have been blown away! 🙂
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it sounds like a lovely trip – wind excluded! I guess that’s why it always pays to have rocks in one’s pockets! 😉
glad you spent your special day in celebrations 🙂
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😊
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Another Fabulous poem, Kim! (@—>—) (@—>—)
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Thank you, Dorna! 😉
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Happy birthday!
Bumblebees are the best bees. They are the friendly, fat zeppelins of the pollinator world!
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Thank you so much, Cie! I was pleased to see more bees than wasps this year.
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Happy birthday! The wind does steal away the seasons…(K)
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Thank you so much, Kerfe! The wind blew the whole weekend away. I can’t believe it’s Monday morning again. 🙂
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But sadly, it is…
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Belated birthday wishes, Kim! Hope you have a good year ahead.
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Thank you so much, Lynn!
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