over red hills
the colored rings of sunrise
this balance
of moving forward
and letting go
(Red Hills, Lake George, 1927, Georgia O’Keeffe)
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Cyndi Lloyd
Cyndi Lloyd lives in Utah with her husband and their dog. She loves being in nature--hiking and taking photographs. Her Japanese-form poems appear in various worldwide journals, including cattails, Chrysanthemum, Frogpond, The Heron?s Nest, Modern Haiku, Presence, Shamrock, and tinywords. Her poems also appear in the following anthologies: Haiku North America?s 2017 Anthology, Every Chicken, Cow, Fish and Frog: Animal Rights Haiku, (Ed. Robert Epstein); Write Like Issa: a haiku how-to (Ed. David G. Lanoue); They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku, (Ed. Robert Epstein).
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This is lovely, Cyndi; quite vivid!
Best,
Theresa
This is excellent, love it, thanks for sharing it!
Ninety nine years of vivid color.
__ My thanks Cyndi, your nifty English form Tanka, has caused me to scan into her art. _m
balance
today is yesterday
tomorrow
What a beautiful ekphrastic tanka!
bright hues
a celebration of
dying leaves ???
So vivid, those rings of light emanating from the rising sun.
marion
her shadow
across the sumac tree
sudden gust