red-orange flames,
breeze across the zinnias
thick with summer scent
Copyright 2018 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: Happy Poetry Friday and thanks to Jone Rush McCullough at DeoWriter for hosting.
38 thoughts on “Zinnia Zephyr”
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Zinnias are my favorites! Such self-empowered flowers.
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And they have a great name. 🙂
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Beautiful photo and haiku.
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Thanks!
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Gorgeous, flaming view of summer’s end. I’ll miss our zinnias until next year.
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They are fading already. So sad.
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Your poem smells of summer… thanks for the final whiff!
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Glad you like it, Buffy.
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Love this, Brenda – especially the title!
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Thanks, Matt.
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So bright and beautiful, both the photo and the poem! Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
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Thanks, Ruth. Soon the leaves will be as bright.
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Refreshing :))
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Thanks.
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Wow! I really needed that gorgeous bit of color today, Brenda. Thanks!
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Thanks for reading, Jama.
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What a gorgeous pop of colour, hard to feel gloomy with that vibrancy in your day!
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Yes, they do lift the spirits.
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You have a great title and poem that makes me want to add zinnias to my summer garden but unfortunately, they do not do well in my garden. Flowers with scents are my favorites, Brenda.
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I have to plant them new each spring, and sometimes I don’t manage it. But I have a neighbor who always does.
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My daughter has a bed of zinnias & I bring home a bouquet from each visit, a favorite flower. I will share your poem of “zinnia zephyr(s)” with her, Brenda. They’re our end-of-summer blooms.
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They are gorgeous, each time I see them.
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Hi Brenda! Hope you had a good week. Wish I could smell those zinnias!
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Fall doesn’t smell as good as summer… 🙂
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Loving those Z words! Thank you, Brenda, as ever, for offering us bouquets of one kind and another! xo
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Thanks for stopping by, Irene. 🙂
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one last burst of glorious color!
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Yes, so gorgeous.
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Reblogged this on Ace Friends & Bloggers News.
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Your Zinnias are incredible Brenda, definitely a “ZINNIA ZEPHYR.” Beautiful match between the image and haiku! And it’s lovely to have that little burst of color this time of year, enjoy!
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Thanks, Michelle. I love plants that flower all summer.
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I do too!
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Wow! I see flames shooting out of the zinnia petals! Intense red!
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🙂 You’re lovely, Peter, thanks.
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I love the phrase “zinnia zephyr”. The Poetry Friday is up.
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Thanks for hosting, Jone.
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Beautiful! Nice word choice!
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Thanks, Molly.
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