A little Haiku arrived in a flash and together with its timely image struck a chord with many of my facebook and twitter friends. It’s the beautiful message of one tulip in my garden, whose eleven companion bulbs were eaten up by hungry rodents.
a lone tulip splays
its red mantle to the sun
there you have my heart
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A Haiku can arrive in a flash or take its time to unfold. Here is an article by Jane Reichhold to inspire. She shares a little history and a number of techniques.
Course of Mirrors 
I’ve never got the hang of writing Haiku but they are little gems – as is your brave tulip. Nice
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Thanks Diane ☼
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Beautiful compistion, I love the tulip photo. Tulips usualy look so neat and symetric, but this one looks like it is a ballerina in a wild defiant dance about to frollick into the forest of adventure.
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Lovely, the image you evoke, thanks ☼
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a little haiku
in a flash and image struck
tulip garden one
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🙂 gardens forever …
the little soldier
of a tulip starts a dance
and all green things clap
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clap in two lipped
cup shaped
applause
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I’ve just read Jane Rheingold’s post Ashen thank you for sharing it. I’ve bookmarked it to read again. Quite extraordinary how concentrated lines evoke the image as does your beautiful haiku. It’s an art for sure ..
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I found Jane Rheingold’s overview very helpful. Sometimes an image persists, or there is a line of words, which doesn’t leave me alone, for days, weeks even. It’s a kind of meditation.
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