Tag Archives: Garden

he informs me . . .

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Margaret Dornaus

he informs me I’ve been working for years on this garden– as if there were limits to love buried deep beneath the ground A Hundred Gourds 3:1, December 2013

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early spring . . .

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Margaret Dornaus

  Rick Daddario’s September 22 “30 Days of Haiga”  prompt is “autumn/spring beginnings.” I chose “spring,” because I already had this haiga I made from a shot of my beautiful tree peony.  It’s the earliest flowering shrub in my garden, and, although … Continue reading →

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Tanka series . . .

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Margaret Dornaus

the winter garden where false hellebore appears without fair warning          my sister’s mind a landscape scored with fault lines . . . and furrows I remember once she took us all to drive-ins that convertible when stars blossomed in her … Continue reading →

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And the winner is . . .

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Margaret Dornaus

moonbathing . . . her old garden hat shines a little brighter At 12: 01 a.m. –just after my birthday celebration officially concluded–I asked my husband to draw a name out of my garden hat so that I might give away a … Continue reading →

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Dreamtime . . .

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Margaret Dornaus

touched by heartbreak I vanish into dreamtime stirred by the echo of light footsteps falling through my tree-lined garden                –issue #4, Moonbathing: A Journal of Women’s Tanka I’m pleased to be a part of Pamela A. Babusci’s latest issue … Continue reading →

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A garden of tanka . . .

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Margaret Dornaus

in the loud silence of wind and birdsong, I sow forget-me-not seeds from a small paper packet filled with our love’s story                            Lynx XXVI:2, June 2011 I’m never happier than when I’m in my garden . . . unless, … Continue reading →

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Autumn haibun . . .

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Margaret Dornaus

fall garden: the Japanese maple dons her red kimono . . . A forest surrounds my garden–   Mile-high oaks . . .  Occasional pines . . .  The stripped, red horsechestnut–littered with its scat of fallen buckeyes . . .  The white ash (turned … Continue reading →

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