yellow yarrow clouds
like bits of solid sunlight
speak of summer
signal with lazy waves to bees
salty with pollen to their knees
Copyright 2017 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: This is a haiku followed by a rhyming couplet. I’m calling it a haiku-chasing rhymplet. The rhyming couplet arguably makes it a tanka, but a special frivolous, rhyming tanka.
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Friendly Fairy Tales 
Really cool writeup 👏
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Thanks.
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
FRIVOLOUS TANKA—WONDERFULLY SPECIAL TANKA! TANKA YOU, BRENDA!
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LOL Tanka you, Jonathan!
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Welcome you are!
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I think your haiku would lool great on your photo and create a lovely image poem for Sunkissed Summer Gallery. What do you think?
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I’ll see if I can get to it. I’m under a submission deadline at the moment. XOXO
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Phenomenal! 😎😎😎
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Thanks, Dorna!
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😊I love it that in your country if you look anywhere, you can see a flowering shrub or plant. Over here, our climate is Summer all year round 365 days a year and little flowering plants in 33C or 34C scorchers! Other than orchids or bougainvilleas, none of the roses or daisies or anything really. Thanks always for sharing.
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We don’t have orchids or bougainvilleas because it’s too cold. I do appreciate our wildflowers and gardens.
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😊
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Such a pretty yellow flower🌝
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So hardy, too. 🙂
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Simple and wonderful words so well penned, Brenda.
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Thanks!
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Welcome
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I love the fact you are creating a new way to write a poem, Brenda.
I like yellow in all flowers and believe my Mom had yarrow in her gardens. She liked old school plants and useful ones, too. 🙂 The bees part was a bonus to me!
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Thanks! I love that your mom had wildflowers in her garden. I have white yarrow and mullein pink. Foxglove. Roses. All old fashioned and pretty.
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joyful and beautiful…
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so pretty and bright!
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Thanks!
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That’s really cool! We have only white yarrow here.
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I have white in my yard, but my neighbor has that cool yellow. I admire it.
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Wonderful words 😍 🌼💛
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Thanks!
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Would have been terrific in my yellow collage! Cheerful.
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Thanks. They are pretty flowers.
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