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Weekly Challenge

Theme: Change

Emotion: Longing

Color: Amber

Season: Autumn

Form: Haiku

Object: Leaf

Verb: Fall

Longing (Poetry Wheel Challenge)

amber leaf falls free; the branch remembers holding what cannot return.
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September 21, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Very nice haiku -- and with a nod to those neuroscientists who developed nerve endings in missing limbs that literally 'remember' the motions of their missing limbs. ~ Whatishetalkingaboutnow
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