flown

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beauty, flowers, garden, gardening, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, thistles

fickle seeds have flown
leaving their nest disheveled
golden thistle heads

Fallen

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cold, gardening, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, shiver, summer, weather

On shivering

Middle of summer
Unseasonably cold breeze
Fallen rose petals

sweetness

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birds, blackbirds, garden, gardening, gooseberries, haiku, nature, poetry

On moving on from blackberries

ripe, red gooseberries
should you doubt their crisp sweetness
blackbirds will confirm

Buzz

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bees, flowers, garden, gardening, haiku, nature, poem, poetry

On a gardening trend

An uncut front lawn
Flowers I don’t recognise
Bees have no problems

Peek

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courgette, garden, gardening, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, summer, weather

yesterday’s dark clouds
banished by a soft, west breeze
courgette leaves peek through

Bounty

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birds, gardening, haiku, nature, photography, poetry, summer, wales, weather, wildlife, winter

Remnants of summer
sunflower seeds and apples
bounty for songbirds

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

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