Tanka – Sarah Potter Writes

#Tanka 54 + #Painting of Labrador in Bluebell Woods

Vision of beauty.
Down yonder, in bluebell woods,
my chocolate dog.
Love immortalised in paint,
such sweet banishment of gloom.

Peppers and eggplants...
dreaming of ratatouille.
Solanaceae,
a coat of many colours,
some deadly, some nutritious.

Sadness, that blank page.
Now to draw a happy face
with magic pencil.
Hark! You gloomsters and doomsters,
Art wins the battle hands down.

Rewind that decade!
Side by side we almost flew,
chasing time and scents.
Labrador sleeked through meadow,
coat a-shimmer. A mirror.

Upon reflection,
side by side our hearts still fly,
with time the hounder.
We compete for silver now,
not of riches but of hair.

Shadows, lines, no lies,
her age acknowledged full well;
she is where she is.
What of the child within:
that spark of rebellion?