I sneaked a little visit to mama’s nasturtiums…the first blooms of spring and you can put them in salads because our garden is organic.
Well, today I urged mama to put in this link to a few very beautiful haikus, which mama and I find soothing and sweet on this Saturday of not very good news…
Take a look at the haikus and feel a bit of calm in this distressing world. Or try to write your own. We have done this before, but a little brush-up never hurts. Here is our 17-syllable, 3-line offering:
Rain in place of flowers
how it wraps the blooms
in its soothing blanket
Have a lovely Saturday and take a break from the bleak news.
Put a spoon of sugar in any vase of flowers to make the buds open and the blooms last.
You look good amongst the flowers, Loulou.
I did love rolling around in the nasturtiums and now can do it at will, haha.
What a pretty haiku! Not enough people realize how rain can temper the cold as well as the hot weather.
Merci, mama love thinking up haiku-s. Good for the brain and heart.
Haiku is a lovely poetic form.
I’m glad your mama has an organic garden.
With cut flowers, a bit of sugar, as well as a spoon of lemon juice (for the citric acid) and a drop of bleach (to kill any germs the water might grow) keeps the flowers looking fresh longer.
OH MERCI FOR THAT TIP!!!! Mama loves things like that and will pass it on to friends. MERCI again.
Beautiful flowers and poem. XO
Merci, Ms E. Haikus are soothing to think up….
That is a delightful haiku! We ate some bittercress what grows all over our yard like an invasive weed…but it tastes pretty good, and we only nibbled the plants that were growing way n the back of our yard, far away from the pollution of car exhaust, and suchlike. There’s a picture of it on our blog, to be posted on 3/15.
Oh, so glad you tried it. Mama is looking for weeds in our garden, haha. But we have only sneaky ivy from the neighbor’s garden…grrr.
Those were great Haikus and the flowers sure are pretty!
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Weren’t they lovely? So calming to read haikus. And the flowers are the base of mama’s perfume, Bellodgia, the real version no longer made because some turkey said it made them break out but that’s bs. The perfume is from 1800s at Caron and mama has worn it for …uh…a long time, as did her mother. Now they make a fake but it’s pretty good, made with chemicals, not carnations!!!!
What lovely poems…but LouLou in t he nasturtium i beautiful too ! Thank you !
Merci, Ms Mary…we have yards and yards of nasties (as mama’s friend called them, with love) everywhere and they come up on their own.
lovely floral and haiku ~ thanks, I write haiku also ~ hugs, ^_^
How wonderful. Would love to see them!