early shoots succumb
victims of returning cold
crocuses survive
This haiku is my response to
Frank Tassone’s #Haikai
Challenge #126: returning cold.
Image source: pixabay.com / Simone Bäcker
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Hopefully they’ll return next year.
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Temperatures like a yo-yo, and they always manage!
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Very nice Ken. Love the picture as well. It is really amazing how resilient plants are in this cold weather!
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Thank you, Dwight. 🙂
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Persistence … try, try again … unlike humans, plants can wilt/die down to the roots but not take that as defeat or character reprimand … “survive” becomes incremental
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It’s so odd that crocus are so sturdy because they look so delicate. Happens in life, I guess. Nice write Ken.
Pat
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Thank you, Pat.
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It’s so odd that crocus are so sturdy because they look so delicate. Happens in life, I guess. Nice write Ken.
Pat
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🙂 🙂
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #3: Ken Gierke’s latest haiku for my current #haikai challenge!
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Thanks for sharing this, Frank.
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My pleasure, Ken! 🙂
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It’s always a shock to see blossoms blanketed in snow.
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