Tanka: One by One

a smiling brindle whippet in a black jacket climbing over a bank of shingle

one by one
they re-appear
sand bars
every day is earth day
for seals who catch the sun

© Xenia Tran

Take 5ive, 2023 Earth Day

seals sunning on a sand bar near the mouth of the river

Wishing you all a happy Monday and a peaceful new week,

with love from Misty and Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Frolic

Sunday Stills: Adoration of the Earth

Tanka: Radiant Day

a brindle whippet in a yellow jacket looking towards a sandbar with hundreds of seals

a radiant day
rises from the mist
our hearts leap
as we walk towards the sound
of seals barking

© Xenia Tran

hundreds of seals basking in the sun on the opposite shore where the river flows into the sea

Wishing you all a happy Monday and peaceful new week,

with love from Misty and Xenia xxx

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Walking

Jez Braithwaite’s Water Water Everywhere #165

Rag Tag Daily Prompt: Radiate

Quadrille: When Nature Gives Us Poems

 

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one day of warm
can melt all the snows

seals bask in the sun
calling their pups

watched by a cormorant
on a pole in the river

cast your net to
capture the sounds

follow your gaze

feel nature give poetry
in her making

© Xenia Tran

 

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We wish you all a very happy Monday and a wonderful new week!

With love from Eivor, Pearl and Xenia xxx

 

Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Panasonic Lumix FZ200, Settings: f/6.3, 1/60 s, ISO 100 and f/4, 1/640 s, ISO 100.

 

Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Variations on a Theme

dVerse Quadrille – Poem One for Me

dVerse Poets Pub Logo

 

Tanka: Polished Stones

 

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kelp rests
on sand and polished stones
from river and sea
seals glide through water
a place we all can be

© Xenia Tran

 

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Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.

Camera: Lumix Panasonic FZ38, setting: iA.

 

In response to Carpe Diem Universal Jane #9 – Naked Rock (AHA-Poetry 2013)