
Let me introduce you to some KU reads I loved! These are my four and five star recommendations. Click the book image to visit the books on Amazon.com. The Herbarium, by Pamela Chartrand My Recommendation: Paige Delaney recently lost her husband, which leaves her feeling lost and alone. Her friend tries to cheer her up […]

day and night now, equal in length— a stasis between the light and the darkness, it’s time… focus on balance call upon self-control, good will— let peace and quietude return to comfort our souls © Colleen M. Chesebro

Mark from Naturalist Weekly offers an amazing weekly haiku challenge. This week’s haiku invitation is to write a haiku or senryu that references spring insects. spring cleaning chores sweeping winter out the door stink bugs really stink © Colleen M. Chesebro Every spring (it’s too cold here in Michigan for the stink bugs to come […]

For #TankaTuesday this week, our words to find synonyms for were: spring & green. I used tender for green, and the word budding for spring. buoyant tender shoots on a water lily pond reflections budding © Colleen M. Chesebro Judy Mastrangelo’s inspirational oracle cards, Dream Your Joy, inspired this haiku.

The Carrot Ranch March 13, 2023, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about a place where children once played. It can be a field, a playground, or any place that attracted children to play. But now it is empty. Abandoned. Go where the prompt leads! Submit by March 18, 2022. […]
This poem says so much in so few words. Love it!
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Thanks, Andrew. ❤️
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[…] via When the Red Bird Sings — Colleen Chesebro ~ Fairy Whisperer […]
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Beautiful, Colleen. That makes my heart sing ❤
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Thanks, Mel. 😘❤️
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Colleen, a lovely poem. Is it based on some folklore? Also I tried your link for the monthly newsletter and it came up as a missing page.
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Oh no. I will have to see what happened. Actually the Haiku is about my sister. When she passed away we saw a cardinal at her funeral. It was her favorite bird. ❤️
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Bernadette, I have the link fixed now… good grief, what a mess. LOL! ❤
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A beautiful haiku Colleen 🙂
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Thanks, Janice. I miss seeing your poetry. Glad you stopped by. ❤
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And I yours…there are so many adventures in this blog world … so hard to do and read it all…for the next two months I ‘ll have dog rehab added to my to do list as our little Ella just had knee surgery.
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Oh no. I will try to stop in more often. Hugs, Janice. 😘
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So will I :))
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Such a phenomenal treasure. 🌹🌹🌹
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Thanks. What a compliment! ❤
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Lovely haiku Colleen, see you’ve changed your domain name. Thinking of doing this myself.
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I did, Marje. I figure if our readers want to find us, they will Google our name. This made it easier. I am not going to have two blogs though. This will be my author blog and regular blog. ❤ I am thinking about doing a landing page about the books. Then the reader clicks the blog link and they can read the posts… I'm not sure yet.
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Yes sounds like a good idea Colleen. I’m considering all the options too. 🙂
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Reblogged this on Kate McClelland.
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Beautiful words and picture, Colleen. It made my heart sing along with the red bird!
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Thanks Noelle. I’m glad you enjoyed it. ❤️
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Lovely poem. The picture of the cardinal surrounded by snow on the branches is beautiful. ❤
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Thank you, Viva. I love cardinals. They were my sister’s favorite birds. ❤
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