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Downpour In the Yard

DOWNPOUR IN THE YARD ‘’’ ‘’ ‘ ‘’’’’’’’’’ ‘ ‘ ‘’’ ‘ ‘ soaking in rainfall windblown flowers and plants stoop muted colors stray falling leaves now plastered flat… framing my yard with damp clay (c) tanka ------------------ For Brian Strand's Your Choice Once More Written by nette onclaud

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Carol Sunshine Brown

Date: 11/16/2011 12:37:00 PM

Congratulations on your well deserved win in the Your Choice Once More contest Nette. Love, Carol

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 11/13/2011 1:25:00 AM

NETTE ANOTHER WONDERFUL WIN, CONGRATULATIONS, in BRIANS ;-) contest,..p.d.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 11/11/2011 11:28:00 PM

hmmm, looks like another good one I somehow had missed. Congrats on your win, Nette!

Lori Lucas Mcclure

Date: 11/11/2011 5:12:00 PM

Congratulations Nette onyour first place win with this amazing tanka!====Lori

Robert A. Dufresne

Date: 11/11/2011 5:07:00 PM

congratulations to you Nette on the fantastic piece and win

Gwendolen Song

Date: 11/11/2011 3:46:00 PM

See, this IS the sign of a great poet...YOU can write about ANYTHING, even a MERE WEED, and make it phenom poetry! How DO YOU DO IT? Wow. First place horrays for you, Nette. The next time it rains, I will try and find something elegant amongst the mud in my yard. :) Gwendolen

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 11/11/2011 11:56:00 AM

Very nice, Nette! Congratulations on taking first place in Brian's contest! Love, Carolyn

Carrie Richards

Date: 11/11/2011 11:16:00 AM

It's so true. A weed will grow, where my pampered flowers will not! They have a strong will to flourish...so perhaps we should let them!! Nicely done!

Linda-Marie Sweetheart

Date: 11/11/2011 9:32:00 AM

Congrats Nette luv on a superb first place win for this exciting entry my friend..luv..

Carol Sunshine Brown

Date: 9/21/2011 1:56:00 PM

Congratulations on your win in the contest of Francine "The View" Nette. Love, Carol

Carrie Richards

Date: 9/19/2011 11:17:00 AM

Amazing poem, Nette,....such deep and thoughtful descriptions, rather somber and melancholy...just what a tanka should be!! Congrats!!

Linda-Marie Sweetheart

Date: 9/18/2011 10:59:00 PM

CONGRATS NETTE LUV ON SECOND PLACE WIN WITH THESE LOVELY LINES OF TANKA MY FRIEND..SWEET..

Francine Roberts

Date: 9/18/2011 10:49:00 PM

congrats Nette on your second place win with this lovely entry

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 9/15/2011 4:08:00 AM

wow! stopping by your work this night... excellent write,..p.d.

Jeffry Cohan

Date: 9/13/2011 7:43:00 AM

you, my dear, are a true artist sans paint...just words that "flourish as a newborn weed" i have a poem very similar to this, but if you've noticed the title on the outside has nil to do with the actual poem..makes it nearly impossible to find, but perhaps i'm better off because you write fluently, i write haphazardly and try to reflect the simple perfection of your words....cudoes my friend ~free cee!~

Jack Ross Jr.

Date: 9/12/2011 5:36:00 PM

Lovely Tanka as per are all of your writings..good luck on contest....with love....old Jack

Russell Sivey

Date: 9/12/2011 4:47:00 PM

What a wonderful description of your yard! I particularly enjoyed the line, "a newborn weed flourishes" very funny nette!! You'll do well in the contest!!

Harry Horsman

Date: 9/12/2011 11:12:00 AM

brilliant nette, can relate to this wonderful poem. Harry

Linda-Marie Sweetheart

Date: 9/12/2011 10:53:00 AM

exotic view of your yard Nette luv and so much rain has set the scene for so many places around the World my friend.. great idea for this write ..good luck in the contest luv... am enjoying this view too...s.m.luv..

Steven Cooke

Date: 9/12/2011 10:21:00 AM

Your pen paints the scene for us, Always professional to the last letter. Another exceptional write. I see a book waiting to be printed me thinks.

Kash Poet

Date: 9/12/2011 4:02:00 AM

Though u are not informing me now about your new postings I am getting an alarm in my mobile as soon as you are posting a new poem....

S.Jagathsimhan Nair

Date: 9/12/2011 4:00:00 AM

Thanks, nette, for your sweet visit..nice, this one..having enjoyed your long poems .. don't u feel sort of cramped with these shorter forms..nice day.. hugs

Kash Poet

Date: 9/12/2011 3:59:00 AM

Wonderful imagery here...very good observation of nature.You have painted a pic of your yard..others draw a picture of out side from the yard..My view is blocked by a concrete wall with a crack in it...come visit 2 new poems...