cloud cover . . .
plum blossoms reach out
to the sky
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Margaret Dornaus
Margaret Dornaus holds an M.F.A. in literary translation from the University of Arkansas, where she received the Lily Peters Poetry Translation Award as well as being twice nominated for an Associated Writing Program essay-writing award. Winner of the Tanka Society of America?s 2011 International Tanka Contest, her tanka, haiku and haibun have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including: A Hundred Gourds; Atlas Poetica; Modern Haiku; Moonbathing; red lights; Ribbons; and others. Her first book of poems, Prayer for the Dead: Collected Haibun & Tanka Prose, received a 2017 Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America. View all posts by Margaret Dornaus
Beautiful.
Lovely, Margaret.
sweet smell of spring
pixie dust sprinkled
on apple blossoms
.
cloud cover . . .
plum blossoms reach out
to the sky
—MARGARET DORNAUS
Nothing more beautiful than plum (or cherry) blossom against a stark blue and white sky!
Thank you!
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this sorrowing heart fading into plum
Alan Summers
Publication Credits: Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)