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A garden enthusiast who loves to travel and capture the beauty of places and freeze the memories of her travels in photographs, as well as document her experiences in verse...thankful for the simple pleasures in life.

Friday, December 16, 2011

My dancing hibiscus


I've been collecting hibiscus (mainly the double variety) and have a number of different colours. The double variety appeals to me not only because they are bigger, and fabulously showy, but also because they are great as subjects for photography. Their petals appear to have motion...and the flower seems to be doing a dance routine each time I get close to them with my camera.

This one is decidedly showy!


See what I mean...this one just won't keep still...she is swaying to the music of a waltz.


A Viennese Waltz!


This ballerina has just done a pirouette and is about to take a bow.





The single hibiscus is more sedate, this one is looking down in a pensive mood.



This one is looking up, as if posing for a glamour shot.



Pure and demure... 


Here's a double in action, wings spread out, ready to cha cha cha!



I like this rhumba posture, don't you?




This is a flamenco, hot and fiery!




Smokin' hot colours of the samba!




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She's dressed for dancing, but could she be a wallflower after all?




 

memories of a shy dancer
(a tanka form)
shy dancer looks down
twists the programme in her hands
music fills her soul
 longs to step onto the floor
some one asks her, she shrinks back

alone by the wall

heart pounding to the rhythm
feet crossed, motionless
night creeps on midst revelry
trapped in bubble, she breaks free




(Haiku for Sensational Haiku Wednesday)
 time of timid youth
fettered by painful reserve 
prepare to blossom