live oaks retain life
November the joyous month
southern doors flung wide
thankful for reprieve from heat
we walk in the midday sun
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Posted for Frank J. Tassone’s Haikai Challenge #8 – Thanksgiving.
November is the most beautiful month in Florida. It is a time of returning to life and being outside; this is our season of life.
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I’m in the south too, way at the bottom end of Africa. The summer heat can be dangerous these days.
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I know that one! We don’t don’t walk in the midday sun in July. We are in Florida and it is fall, but fall, winter & spring are glorious; it is the summer that kills us!
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Same here, though I wish we have more sun. Stay cool!
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Thanks, Colin! I’m aways cool, man 🙂
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A refreshing poem! We finally have a bit of a chill here. I’d prefer if we could just skip right over winter and go straight to spring at this point, but I guess the seasons don’t really care what I think. 🙂
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Oh well; at least I get to wear my boots. 🙂
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #8: Jilly’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!
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I like “southern doors flung wide”!
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Thanks! I love the reality of it.
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