Ornery Poetry Sunday: Wildfires

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Image from the Lamar Ledger 17 August 2020

https://www.lamarledger.com/2020/08/17/colorado-wildfire-update-august-17-williams-fork-grizzly-creek/

such a hot day

my shadow needs to cool down

under the willow

smoky haze filling the sky

world is burning around me

~cie~

notes

The Hokku (three-line stanza) is © Kyoshi Takahama (1874-1958). The Ageku (two-line stanza) was written by me.

I am well to the northeast of where the above image was taken, but there are wildfires all over the state. We are surrounded by haze. 

https://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2020/08/carpe-diem-tan-renga-wednesday-17.html

I will likely never publish this work in any collection. But who knows for sure?

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