Princess Haiku is a literary collage of poetry, prose, photography, classical music, dance and book reviews, written in the tradition of a poetic memoir.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
A Rain of Magnolia Blossoms
Princess Haiku walked in a rain of magnolia blossoms even though the day was just a dream. This fragrance is so real, she thought I can't have imagined this Spring.
This looks just like my garden right now! Last week I was admiring my gloriously blooming magnolia tree (it seems to bloom earlier every year!), but a couple of really stormy days later... desolation reigns....
I like the image of a storm of magnolia petals. The contrast of wild, surging winds and the delicacy of temporal blooms. This contrast of natural energy is perplexing at times. The blooms after the storm on the ground...And yet it continues. Buds return the following year, broken hearts mend, one footstep will follow another. What is required here is a haiku to express feeling this more perfectly.
Thank you She Who flies, for stopping to visit and leaving a poetic image.
Diane Dehler is a photographer and poet. Her flower photography has been featured on Haiga online and she has several thousand followers on facebook. Her multi-media video poem, "The Lotus" has received 3000+ views on youtube. As a poet she is known for her lyricism and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist for the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Prizes 2016. She received a degree from the Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State University, receiving the Outstanding Student of the Year Award. She is an English Language poet in the international literary scene and; has been published in numerous poetry journals and three anthologies. Mostly recently she has published in, The Artemis Review, Cultural Weekly, Edgar Allan Poet, The Mas Tequila Review, The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Munyori Literary Review, The Taj Mahal Review, Truck, Deepwater Literary Journal, Moonbathing: A Journal of Women’s Tanka, Lummox Journal and poeticdiversity.
5 comments:
This looks just like my garden right now! Last week I was admiring my gloriously blooming magnolia tree (it seems to bloom earlier every year!), but a couple of really stormy days later... desolation reigns....
I like the image of a storm of magnolia petals. The contrast of wild, surging winds and the delicacy of temporal blooms. This contrast of natural energy is perplexing at times. The blooms after the storm on the ground...And yet it continues. Buds return the following year, broken hearts mend, one footstep will follow another. What is required here is a haiku to express feeling this more perfectly.
Thank you She Who flies, for stopping to visit and leaving a poetic image.
Oh this was delicious
breath taking
I wish that flowers, and trees could be in bloom all year. I wish some of the trees were in fall orange, and red just as long.
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