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DownEast Maine
names tell of history or use
Steamboat Landing
unique and trendy hard to find
‘cept for Flockamoosen Way
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TPOS prompt: favorite name
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photo: 2019 Saradunn
road sign to Forest Ridge Campground in Ellsworth, Maine
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In the thirty years we have lived here,
one of the highlights of spring is waiting for the first color on our Queen –
a fourteen foot rhododendron we have nurtured from a princess less than four feet.
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This year, that color happened over the weekend inside the bush barely visible.
I happened to be gone.
Today, the first streaks of color showed on several outside buds –
with sun they should burst forth tomorrow of the next day.
Makes me really happy.
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We anticipate new in many ways –
in flowers such as lilacs or rose buds,
a newborn,
the first grapes,
the first home baked cookie,
breaking of the ice.
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These are not always momentous occasions such as graduation;
they can be mundane – the first dandelion bloom.
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What “bursting forth” do you anticipate?
What first color?
Shoot?
Taste?
Event?
How will your tanka celebrate this first?
April 22, 2014 prompt: first color – anticipation
yellow primrose peeks
winter’s wilted cover hid
spring’s delightful gift
spirits lift at the sight
new greens bright ~ spring colors delight
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(c) 4/2014…Saradunn
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