Riversong soliloquy

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riversong

wind blown from autumn trees

a stream of gold

(© Jane Reichhold)

leaf petal poems scatter

as barren branches shiver.

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dark mirrors glimmer,

rushes echo sumac rust,

leaf chorus rising.

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caw-caw caw-caw crows calling

where have all the songbirds gone?

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relentless downpour,

mushroom spores hide in damp rot,

cones rise like magic.

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grasses shimmer green raindrops,

sun-scorched browns now orange bronze.

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last dandelions—

parachutes of hope for a

spring generation.

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swirling wind dancers fly up

falling to their earthly rest.

(©ontheland.wordpress.com)

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Jane Reichhold’s haiku is so beautiful, I just had to try a Soliloquy no Renga response as suggested by Chevrefeuille in Carpe Diem Universal Jane #3: ‘Riversong’.  It was pouring rain today so that influenced my response.

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My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

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