Seasoning

    Four Seasons in One Day from Open Source Images

After drooping heat,

grey autumn rain chills into

winter’s mocking snow

which settles on bud and shoot.

That’s April in Wisconsin.

This is for PAD Day #11 and the Imaginary Garden, sort of. 

On Love and Storms

We can’t always choose

spring rains quench, revive or drown,

but drought is lifeless.

Take your chances with the sky -
leave your umbrella behind.

This is for Day#7 of PAD and linked to the open write in the Imaginary Garden.

Of Magpies and Toads

    Muscian in the Rain by Robert Doisneau

I love you darling

with your comfort at arm’s length.

but when rain falls soft

on black and white autumn days

I seek the warmth of your touch.

This is generated by writing prompts from two wonderful writing sites.  The first, IGRT, is responsible for the form, which is called tanka.  A tanka contains 31 syllables in a line pattern of 5/7/5/7/7. Check out the link for a much more complete description, and other writers' tankas.  The second source, The Mag, has provided the picture.  Check that site for more writers' responses to this image.

Meanwhile

     
     What will be recalled

     through distant times and places?

     A throw-away phrase

     could linger on for ages

     in the mind of another.