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Unread Message

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Written for SenHai Saturday where our host,
Susi asks us to write a senryu and haiku using
the image shown below as inspiration.
Here’s where the image took me.

© Daniil Silantev @ Unsplash

she waits by the tree
pink petals fall on her phone
the message unread

⌘ ⌘⌘

frost-dark branch holds on
while white blossoms let go first
spring knows what to do

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This is “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” by KT Tunstall

SenHai Saturday #55

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