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Bone-deep in winter
meadow trees are sleeping, but
time skates on thin ice.
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(c) 2022 Betty Hayes Albright
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Water-color by my grandmother, Lilly Bjornstad
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Posted in haiku or senryu, just a scribble, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged freeze, nature, poem, Poetry, senryu, tick tock, time, Trees, winter on January 3, 2022| 48 Comments »
Posted in haiku or senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged aspiration, moon, poem, Poetry, pond, senryu, sky, spirituality on September 27, 2020| 46 Comments »
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Little garden pond
longs to be round as the sky —
Moon reflects on that.
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(c) 2020 Betty Hayes Albright
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(Image from copyright free source in 2012)
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Posted in haiku or senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged Gaia, illumination, nature, poem, Poetry, poppy, senryu, sunshine on August 12, 2020| 35 Comments »
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Dance little poppy,
bow to ev’ry little breeze —
sunshine lands on all.
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(c) 2020 Betty Hayes Albright
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(Photo taken last week. We had a lot of orange California poppies…this was the only pink one. I love ’em all. 💕)
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P.S. I just realized, today is my 9th anniversary on WordPress!! Thank you to the many dear friends I’ve met here over the years.)
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Posted in haiku or senryu, just a scribble, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged gift, life, Love, now, poem, Poetry, present, senryu, time, wings on February 9, 2020| 35 Comments »
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Now we understand —
time is not a fleeting thing,
it is we who fleet.
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Now we understand –
time does not have any wings,
it is we who fly.
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Now we understand –
there is only one present
for us to unwrap.
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© 2020 Betty Hayes Albright
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Sorry I’m way behind reading blogs again. Am missing you all, and will hopefully start catching up soon, little by little. Please forgive me if I don’t comment much. (Fibromyalgia and chronic back pain are the usual culprits, and I know many of you can relate to these “invisible” health problems.)
Loving thoughts to everyone. ❤❤
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Posted in haiku or senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged death, grief, life, Love, memory, poem, Poetry, senryu, timelessness on October 31, 2019| 41 Comments »
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How is it that grief
stays so fresh year after year?
It must be the salt.
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© 2019 Betty Hayes Albright
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Posted in haiku or senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged light, path, poem, Poetry, promise, senryu, sun, Winter Solstice on December 21, 2018| 48 Comments »
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Sunlight hugs our path
curling around each corner
leading with promise.
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(c) 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
(Photo by my son, Jason Judd)
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Wishing everyone a Happy Solstice,
a Merry Christmas,
a wonderful celebration of the season,
and fulfilled hopes for the New Year. 💚
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Posted in haiku or senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged attraction, destiny, Gaia, honey bee, Love, nature, poem, Poetry, pollination, seduction, senryu on April 8, 2018| 29 Comments »
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Sooner or later
Gaia has her way with us
all will be seduced.
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(c) 2014, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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(Photo from July, 2011. Re-posted from 2014)
Posted in haiku or senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged beach, Gaia, gift, nature, poem, Poetry, seashell, senryu, sunset on February 23, 2018| 35 Comments »
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Sunset gave itself
to a seashell on the beach
that’s where she found it.
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(c) 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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(This shell was found in 1982, on the beach in Edmonds, Washington. In all my years of beach-combing, I never found another one like it.)
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Posted in haiku or senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged birch trees, endurance, Gaia, nature, poem, Poetry, senryu, survival, winter on February 17, 2018| 39 Comments »
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Birch trees catch my eye
deep in the trough of winter
white bark withstanding.
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© 2014, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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Partial of an original watercolor by my grandmother,
Lilly Bjornstad. (She painted this when she was about 100. She lived to 108.)
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(re-post)
Posted in haiku or senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged Earth, Gaia, nature, poem, Poetry, senryu, sky, snow, surrender on January 7, 2018| 21 Comments »
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Heavy laden sky
surrenders to lure of earth
forest is hush-hush.
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© 2013, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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(A re-post)
Photo taken 12-20-2013