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Carpe Diem Special #217 Dolores' 1st paintbrush flowers (tanka)

paintbrush flowers
dancing on the hillside
wind blows over reeds
ancient chants resurrected
sights and sounds of summer

© Dolores

The challenge for today's CD Special is to create a tanka (5 lines: respectively 5-7-5-7-7 syllables) inspired on this beauty by Dolores. Have fun!

faraway sounds
bring memories of childhood
laughing children
seeking for chestnuts
between colorful leaves

© Chèvrefeuille

sun ripened corn fields
waiting the harvester claw
waving crinkled leaves
sun sails south to cold lands
warm days pulled by her rays

©  petra domina

Thanks to Chèvrefeuille for daily prompts on 

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Comments

  1. Yamini MacLeanSeptember 7, 2016 at 10:21 AM

    Hari OM
    As the corn ripens
    contemplation of harvest
    impending autumn
    reflecting the summer passed
    preparing for the winter.

    (Couldn't resist this one!) YAM xx

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    1. JaniceSeptember 7, 2016 at 4:40 PM

      Blessings, YAM
      I love it when haiku, renga and tanka are responses to a post. janice

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  2. Pat RSeptember 7, 2016 at 7:47 PM

    Yes, harvest time, autumn is upon us. Lovely.

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    1. JaniceSeptember 8, 2016 at 12:03 AM

      Most of the cornfields here are already harvested. We had a few 'cool' days, ie mid to high 80's. Now we are back in the mid to high 90's. Felt like fall for a couple of days.

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  3. Pat RSeptember 7, 2016 at 7:48 PM

    Yes, harvest time, autumn is upon us. Lovely.

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  4. Pat RSeptember 7, 2016 at 7:48 PM

    Yes, harvest time, autumn is upon us. Lovely.

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  5. ChèvrefeuilleSeptember 10, 2016 at 2:54 AM

    Autumn has started Mother Nature changes her clothes. Beautiful.

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  6. TournesolSeptember 20, 2016 at 3:37 PM

    harvester claw...love that phrase; thank goodness autumn starts with apples, last crop of corn and pumpkin...yum!! ready for our Canadian Thanksgiving in October.

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    1. JaniceSeptember 20, 2016 at 7:26 PM

      There are all the images in my mind from my childhood on the farm. That is what a harvester looked like to me as a small child.

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