held in my petals
memories of last summer
slumber here on ice
Copyright 2015 Brenda Davis Harsham
Note: This haiku is my contribution to a long-standing meme, Poetry Friday, which is organized by Kidlitosphere Central and hosted by various bloggers, around the web. I am very excited to participate for the first time. This week you can visit A Teaching Life and see links to the poetry. Some of my friends write kids poetry. If you do, you should check this out. They publish anthologies of the Poetry Friday offerings periodically, and I have it on good authority that they actually PAY for the use of the poem!!! LOL What a concept! (Okay, it’s not going to make me rich, but hey, a dinner out… maybe.)
80 thoughts on “On Ice”
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How beautiful Brenda, and such a lovely winter picture too! Congratulations on getting your poem published!! 😀
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Thanks! 🙂
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Yes those long lost petals of Hydrangea bushes all crisp and brown… Can not wait until Spring.. x
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Spring is coming. 🙂
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Yes it is :-D….. and I remind myself of that often 🙂 xxx
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Reblogged this on thinkingpinkx2 and commented:
Pink Brenda has flowers on ice at her fairytale dreamland! I love how she makes everything so happy! Yay! Snow and ice never looked the same! 😀
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Aw, thank you!! What a lovely comment! 🙂
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The last line is so nice, Brenda! And, hey, dinner out sounds great too 🙂
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We take the kids out when they play a concert for us. It was fun. Thanks for commenting!
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This is a beautiful poem — especially when read on a snowy day that we are seeing in the Northeast today! Thank you for liking my post on Inktopia Kids! Keep visiting!
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Pleased to visit again. Now seems like a good time. Thanks for your compliment. Warmly, Brenda
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LOVE this haiku. Hope you’re not trapped in the blizzard…
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We were trapped, but having a great time. 🙂 Luckily we did not lose our power.
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That is a blessing–power outages are not good. I saw an article about all the new baby names, related to snow–and that at least one baby was born in the blizzard. Yikes!
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My aunt had just been released from intensive care in the hospital during the blizzard. So many people who work in essential services were awesome during the storm.
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WOW–I’ll be keeping your aunt in my prayers for a full recovery.
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Thank you!! She is a strong woman. She can beat it if anyone can. 🙂
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Bless her heart, I’m cheering her one with prayer.
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Thanks!! 🙂
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The hydrangea is such an exquisite contrast to the ice. The words are perfect, Brenda!
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Thanks! 🙂
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Hi Brenda! Gorgeous haiku! I love it. 😀
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Thanks!!
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Very nice!!
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Thanks!
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Welcome, Brenda! Your haiku captures the emotion and longing of two distinct seasons is so few words. Lovely!
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Thanks! After Old Man Winter dumps three more feet of snow on us, I will be dreaming of summer. 😉
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Hi Brenda…thank you so very much for commenting on Penny’s Great-Aunt and Great-Nephew post…Jeremy and I had so much fun participating. More than that, now I’ve discovered your wonderful blog!!!! Love the haiku…I will be back. 🙂
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Great, i am so happy to hear that. I loved your project. Peace, Brenda
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I’ll add my welcome, too! The P.F. bloggers are people with a generous spirit, you seem like you will fit right in!
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I’m so pleased you think I will fit in. I’ve been blogging primarily in WP for two years, toiling quietly in my own patch of world. I can see that I will have to get used to making my way into the other blogging worlds, too. If I leave a comment other than in WP, I have to go see if a response was made, right? In the past I haven’t followed up, and now I wonder how to set up a system to do that. At least PF is all well organized. Blessings, Brenda
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Welcome to Poetry Friday! I’m so glad you found us. I especially love the last line. That’s not usually a place one slumbers.
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And yet it lay there at ease, and I thought stylishly, too. This is what comes of being lax with pruning. LOL
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So glad you joined the Poetry Friday group, & love that word “slumber”, and the photo is fabulous, too. I have a few dried hydrangeas here in my office, now I’ll think of them as “slumbering memories”!
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Oh, I like your comment very much. 🙂 I’m pleased to meet all of you, very much.
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So glad you found Poetry Friday! Hydrangea are one of my favorite flowers, so I was captivated by your photo. Your lovely haiku captures the image perfectly.
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I’m so happy to have found Poetry Friday. You regulars are all so lovely to come visit and comment here. And I really enjoyed the reading I did last night. I hope to keep participating. Warmly, Brenda
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Welcome to Poetry Friday! The contrast of seasons in your haiku (and in your photo) is very effective.
Just to clear up a misconception, the Poetry Friday Anthologies were INSPIRED by the idea of sharing poetry every Friday, but are not a collection of the offerings through this meme. You will find many of the poets who participate in Poetry Friday in the blogosphere in the PFAs, but these anthologies are classroom resources, with a poem a week for each grade (K-5 and 6-8 in separate books, plus the PFA for Science) that is accompanied by 5 brief teaching points (and aligned to the CCSS).
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Hi Mary Lee Hahn, Thanks for clearing up that misconception for me and my readers. Your anthologies sound wonderful. I can’t remember having anything like that as a kid. What is the submission process? Do you call for submissions or do you select what you want from the existing pool? Thanks for stopping by and commenting. I appreciate your kind comments on my haiku and photo. Warmly, Brenda
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Welcome to Poetry Friday! I’m new this year, too. Beautiful haiku 🙂
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Sally, I’m so happy to meet you. I love your Poetry Friday poem about being a poet. I get most of my inspiration from being out walking, but this particular picture I got when I darted out of my car, seeing the bloom there on the ice.
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Happy you joined Poetry Friday! I like the ice (not something I thought I’d write) in your poem, in your photo, and in your header.
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I just read all those delicious poems, and I feel sad I only just found Poetry Friday. I love it! I’m glad I helped you like ice. Usually I only like it paired with cream. Yet, the spent bloom haunted me.
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I love that photo so much!! It is like a poem all on its own! 🙂 ❤ I love the words too 🙂
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Trini, Thanks! That was taken on my driveway. I loved the shapes in the ice, and that the faded bloom had landed there. Tomorrow we are supposed to have snow. I hope it comes. 🙂 Hugs, Brenda
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I hope so too! 😉 I would love to see some snowy photos! 🙂
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Fingers crossed. 🙂
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Oh, I forgot to ask if you plan to participate in Poetry Friday, given you write poems for kids…
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I haven’t thought about it, I will think about it now 🙂 I just wrote a new poem for Granny’s Garden that I will publish later today 🙂
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I’m wearing out for the night. I read a lot of the others’ poems, and they are a lovely group.
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So S-p-o-o-k-y! I Love it! 😉
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Why spooky, Bob? Missing Halloween? 🙂
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Te He He . . . 😉
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I love this Brenda. The memory of summer held in petals, during winter. Beautiful.
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Thanks, Gigi. I am dreaming of summer. 🙂
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oh that is so beautiful and it looks like a warm heart amidst the ice )
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The heart of a flower. That bush had been hit by a huge half a maple tree, split by a hurricane. It broke off mid-bloom one September, but it has recovered, and the dried blooms blow around my yard in the winter like tumble weeds. I think they are beautiful.
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Welcome to Poetry Friday. It’s such a wonderful, giving, and nurturing community. Love those petals holding summer memories. My summer is happening in a blooming amaryllis flower inside. Trying to have warm thoughts.
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I loved your Bayou poem. I’m so happy to join in. I’ve been writing poetry for kids for a couple of years, completely unaware of Poetry Friday, but now that I’ve found it, I will try to join in most Fridays. Your amaryllis sounds pretty. I have some violets that bloomed recently.
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Burrr, expressed nicely. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
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True, and memories of summer might not be so sweet. 🙂 Thanks for stopping and commenting. Warmly, Brenda
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Happy Magical Friday May your weekend be Perfectly Enchanting !
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Happy Magical Friday to you, Morgan. Old Man Winter is supposed to blow through tomorrow. Yeah! Snow… did I really just say that!?
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He came trotting through, but it really isn’t too terrible this morning. I’ve already been out to the post to send off some signed books and everything. we only got about 4-5 inches and its half melted already 😦 PHOO…hopefully the snow coming sunday night will be “better” 🙂
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I will take what I can get at this point. It’s almost February, and we’ve had just a few flurries.
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Welcome to PF, Brenda! Lovely poem. Great photo too!
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Yeah! Thanks for visiting me and leaving your kind words. I plan to visit everyone else tonight when the kids are in bed. 🙂 Warmly, Brenda
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So chilling! 😉
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LOL Indeed. Snow predicted for tomorrow!! Kids excited for sledding. 🙂
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Enjoy;)
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Will try!
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precious 🙂
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Thanks! 🙂
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You are welcome💐💐
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I have emoticon envy. 🙂
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Hehehehe:-)
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Welcome, Brenda. I love the images in this haiku, and does your accompaning photo make it a haiga? Lovely.
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Calling it a haiga is quite a compliment, thanks! I appreciate your kind words. I was happy to find an on-line community of kids poets. 🙂
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Lovely, Brenda!
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Thanks! 🙂
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