Tanka Challenge 1

Spring flowers color

a brittle winter burned world

with colors ablaze.

Awake! The sun is calling

us: Arise with the flowers.

Views (PAD prompt)

Ferns, lush dark green in the shade

Lilac colored wisteria clinging to a brick wall

Trees with tangled branches

Pale pink peonies

Willows reaching down to water

Marigolds yellow and maroon

Maples of every kind

Scented basils smelling unlike Italian

Blueberry bushes heavy with fruit

Roses white with thorny protection

Peeling bark hanging falling

Zinnias smiling colors nodding good day.

My camera chooses these

or perhaps they choose me

filling my albums with combinations of 

color and texture.

This is what I see when I walk

and my camera leads me to show who I am.