Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (8) pear tree in bloom

This challenge was to write the hokku for a revised quote from Shiki

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overgrown fields
covering the scars of the past
a meadowlark sings

pear tree in full bloom on a battlefield
collapsed house becomes beautiful again                © Shiki (re-worked by Chèvrefeuille)

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