ancient fortress:
tree grows through cracks;
the tree will win.
Fortress [Senryū]
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Category Archives: plants
In Its Time [Senryū]
impatient child
gives pollen fluff a blow;
it does not yield.
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“The Blossom” by William Blake [w/ Audio]
Merry, Merry Sparrow!
Under leaves so green
A happy Blossom
Sees you swift as arrow
Seek your cradle narrow
Near my Bosom.
Pretty, Pretty Robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy Blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, Pretty Robin,
Near my bosom.
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Roadside [Haiku]
roadside tree
shakes with each passing truck,
but no blooms fall.
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Quiet [Haiku]
pink blossom drops
in still morning air
beside a quiet lake.
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Orbits [Haiku]
spherical blooms,
arrayed like planets,
bees zip through.
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Jacaranda [Haiku]
Jacarandas bloom:
thousands of miles from home,
but no less purple.
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“Illusion” by Amy Lowell [w/ Audio]
Walking beside the tree-peonies,
I saw a beetle
Whose wings were of black lacquer spotted with milk.
I would have caught it,
But it ran from me swiftly
And hid under the stone lotus
Which supports the Statue of Buddha.
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Bee Mind [Haiku]
among Spring flowers,
bees swarm one yellow plant
that doesn't look special.
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“Come slowly — Eden!” (205) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
Come slowly -- Eden!
Lips unused to Thee --
Bashful -- sip thy Jessamines --
As the fainting Bee --
Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums --
Counts his nectars --
Enters -- and is lost in Balms.
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