pink morning light
gilds young trees, knee-deep in ice
thousands of diamonds
break light into rainbows,
blinding me to spring
Copyright 2015 Brenda Davis Harsham
Note: Tanka is defined in Oak Leak Tanka. This photograph was taken this spring. You can compare it to a picture taken last winter of the same trees in Five Brothers Tanka. This poem is in honor of Poetry Friday, hosted this week by Check it Out.
41 thoughts on “Diamond Snow Tanka”
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Beautiful, thank you, Brenda!
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Thanks, Resa.
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I will return to read more of your beautiful poems of nature.
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Lovely through and through, B. Wonderful closing. =)
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Thanks!! The sun and the snow make for magic. 🙂
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This is a beautiful tanka, Brenda! Love those thousands of blinding diamonds.
I only wish I had seen it earlier. (Not sure if you were aware that I had a tanka writing challenge on Today’s Little Ditty for the month of March.) Hope you will consider contributing to DMC challenges in future.
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Missed the challenge entirely! Too bad! I would participate if I had a clue. Do you announce it in Poetry Friday? Maybe I just didn’t connect the dots or something.
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Very joyful! Beautiful poetic images ❤
Best wishes! Aquileana ~
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Thank you! All the best to you!
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Glad to see all five brothers are still going strong, even if “knee-deep in ice.”
Love that last line — it dazzles me as much as your tanka!
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I’m so happy you like the last line! It was my favorite. We’ll see how the brothers come back after this brutal year. 🙂
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Diamond & snow. Now that is a lovely combination! I’m inspired to create another poem! Oh yeah, I have a website for my poems now: starrynightpoems.wordpress.com
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All the melting has turned the snow to ice, and it’s blinding in the sun. It was a beautiful moment.
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Beautiful. So glittery and lovely.
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Thanks! I was so happy to find any beauty left in those mountains of melted snow. LOL
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Hi, Brenda. Our snow is gone, but the flowers are still being hesitant about the spring — it’s arriving late here in Maryland.
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We are nowhere near spring here. I think it will be very late here. And perhaps everything will bloom at once.
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So striking that the little trees are “knee-deep in ice.” I love the “thousands of diamonds.” Your rainbows are different from mine. I know the winter has been tough, but sometimes I do know I’m missing something here in California.
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I was struck by how differently two people could use the same word on the same day. 🙂 Just a small difference of 3,000 miles. Your weather out there is to be envied, but we do have beauty in between the shoveling.
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I love the “pink morning light of winter” but will be happy when it’s no longer causing ice and snow to glitter like diamonds! Hope your little trees survive. We have one that looks much worse for the wear. By the way, I sent you an email about your book.
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Yeah, my book. I like how that sounds. LOL I also will be happy to see spring arrive, and the snowy cloak of winter gone for good. However, I’m trying to look on the bright side, and see beauty in every day. My life is so much more positive and uplifting that way. And fortunately, they are not my little trees, but belong to a neighbor. I hope they make it, too.
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I felt this was such a beautiful expression of how the snow reflects the light and nearly blinds you, colors and diamonds in its wake. You won’t believe this but April’s gemstone is diamonds and I have already included this in my title and first paragraph of my monthly calendar, Brenda! Great minds think alike, or so they say. Smiles, Robin
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I usually don’t get to see diamonds on the lawns this close to April. So far it seems likely that they will still be here in April. We still have several feet in places. I will come by and see your post soon. Hugs, Brenda
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This one really was a “gem!” 🙂 ❤
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LOL You’re a gem. XOXO
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Lovely photo and words. 🙂
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Thanks! 🙂
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that is just way too much snow!
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Too true! But we New Englanders are a tough breed. 🙂
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Lovely post! I would be happy to not see snow for a very long time. I’m a snow grouch. Had too much this year and hillbillies and snow dont mix well.
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LOL I’m becoming a snow grouch, for sure!
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Lovely!!! 🙂 ❤ 🙂 ❤
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Thanks! One of snow’s many wonders. 🙂
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🙂 ❤ yes 🙂
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Lovely to be able to compare this spring and last spring. Seems to me you have a tad more snow this spring. 😀
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Yes, indeed, we do! It’s the most snowy year here ever, and one of the latest springs I remember.
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spring’s bling )
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You know it! And such a spring!
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I Lovely, Brenda. I love those snuggly little trees and ‘thousand diamonds’. I love the quietude of snow. 🙂
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I love the silence after a snow fall. That’s true. I love when it melts away in the spring, too! 🙂
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