Beans

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beans, childhood, gardening, grandfather, happiness, memories, poetry, tanka

On feeling nostalgic (Tanka)

planting runner beans
memories of fun childhood
grandfather’s garden
as fast as he put them in
I managed to take them out

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Pruned

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age, black currants, gardening, haiku, nature, poetry, pruning

Pruning black currants

Only young branches bear fruit

Take heed, aged ones

beans means summer

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'french beans', crops, gardening, haiku, runner beans, summer, vegetables

Picking runner beans
Such summer satisfaction
background lawnmower

summer’s time

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anemones, flowers, gardening, gardens, haiku, lupin, nature, seedpods, summer, time

anemones bloom
lupins’ hairy seedpods formed
Summer’s wax and wane

Beware!

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birds, Bob, earwig, gardening, gardens, haiku, nature, robin, wildlife

(written in warmer weather)

Moving flower pots
Robin Bob picks off earwigs
Beware the big ones!

blackcurrant bliss

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blackcurrants, garden, gardening, grandchildren, haiku, memories, mindfulness, nature, summer

Picking blackcurrants
grandchildren pillage ripe fruit
summer memories

topping and tailing
hypnotic repetition
fruitful mindfulness

attack

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gardening, gardens, haiku, humour, lettuces, pests, snails

across damp grasses
dark battalions, hungry snails
lettuces quiver

Soft fruit

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berries, birds, black currants, fruit, gardening, haiku, summer

Weighing down branches

Black currants are ripening 

Birds pay attention 

haiku – busy bees

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bees, gardening, honey bees, summer, wild flowers, wildlife

industrious bees
harvesting golden sunshine
wildflower wonder

haiku – seeds

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gardening, haiku, rain, seeds, summer, weather

summer showers fall
early seeds lay on wet ground
the journey begins