Mastodawn

Illusion of choice
To go by fire or by ice
The road ends the same.

deep in the ravine

during the high summer heat

ice in the shadows

Botanical Garden
Gorgeous pink peonies
Enjoyed by bees

Prompt ~ Peony

The pale pink shadow
cast by the peony bush,
drifts of strewn petals.

焼鮎のなか骨引き抜くをんなゐて / 蒼穹

wilting peony
last pink speckles recalling
a beauty now gone

How High the Moon
days of irrational exuberance
continue unabated

peony
competing in my heart
with poppy

violet morning
a peony afternoon
in the evening, rose

one last peony --
languid, half dressed
in pink chiffon