The mille-feuille pastry of a freshly baked poem crumbles at the ferocity of the pen, fragile flakes fly, dotting pages with sugar, a sweetness that may turn stale if we try to savour it for too long. Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest I’m hosting the Weekend Mini Challenge at Imaginary Garden with […]
Tag: Sweetness
Sweetness of Nature
My haibun in response to Carpe Diem Special #207 Sara McNulty’s third “taste of nature” The trellis is already straining under a mass of tangled honeysuckle bines, dotted with pink buds and one or two early flowers. This particular plant blooms twice: once in spring and again in the summer. It grows beside a mature […]
The Sweetness of Primroses
I am down to one poem a day due to working on the second draft of a story for a competition and preparing to revise Joe and Nelly. Today I decided to write a response to Carpe Diem #909 Sweetness Simple and yellow Primroses are sweet flowers In a woodland glade Shyly dancing […]