Micropoetry | Nature | Inspiration
A Fiesta of Flowers
A morning walk — a celebration of color in tanka-haiku-harlequin verse
A morning amble a time to imbibe a fiesta of flowers a carnival of colors peace with oneself and the world
Bright floral vistas salve dull COVID-weary souls Nature’s remedy
In this year of COVID-19, Spring was especially abundant and colorful for us in Melbourne, Australia. It was just as well because we spent the bulk of it in stage 4 lockdown, confined to our homes, limited to a 5km travel zone for essential purposes only, and bound by a 8pm — 5am curfew. Our one hour per day of permitted outdoor exercise was the only opportunity we had to reconnect with Mother Nature. She rose to the occasion magnificently. Or she did for me anyway. Maybe it was simply my screen-weary eyes, my news-weary mind, and my hope-weary heart clutching for anything that distracted me from the reality of a world under siege.
I’m a child of the ‘flower power’ era. That might explain my affinity with flowers. I particularly love seeing them in their natural state — in the wild or in garden beds. One of the routes I take on my ‘morning constitutional’ takes me past the garden in the photo. In recent weeks, it has been a fiesta of color, shape and texture. A celebration of what it means to be alive. The happy yellows of California poppies, the vibrance of blue and violet lobelia, and the cheeky faces of johnny jump ups (miniature violas), all in frenzied profusion, have lifted my spirits, lightened my step and made my heart sing. An excellent way to start the day and to get the creative spark ignited — or in this case, creative writing flowering.
Time for another poem — this time, a harlequin.
walk around neighborhood Spring garden blooms purples — yellows — blues soaring spirits creative writing bud
Let’s do that one properly. Here it is the way a harlequin poem is meant to look — if only Medium editor would let me center-align the text. 😉
For those interested in finding out more about harlequin poems, you can learn more here.
Thank you for reading my A Fiesta of Flowers tanka-haiku-harlequin triplet of micropoems. I hope you have something in your life that inspires you as much as flowers and colors do for me. 💕
