Here is Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday Weekly Challenge #263. It’s Taste the Rainbow week and the color is, green. Bonus points if you can write it without saying the color green.
I had a lot of ideas when I thought of green. I ended up with a haibun which is a combination of prose paragraph and a haiku. I’ll be out there dancing until the rains return and fill our lakes and wells:)
LOOK UP
The weather-beaten soil is devoid of life during another dry winter. Even the mushrooms gave up and retreated into the earth while the weeds withered into themselves. The mighty cedars and pines push their roots deeper in search of the life-giving liquid. Hose water provides what the season couldn’t, a lifeline for the thirsty potted plants. A rain dance in the forest becomes a prayer that there will still be the verdant lushness of spring where life burst forth from winter’s silence and offers the world hope.
heavy clouds gather
rain…mother nature’s nectar
bless our wilderness
