My Spring sleep is unswayed by dawn --
Though birds are heard through screen, still drawn.
Recalling night sounds of rain and wind,
I wonder how the flowers have thinned?
Original in Chinese:
春眠不覺曉，
處處聞啼鳥。
夜來風雨聲，
花落知多少。
dense bloom clusters
of one week are a carpet
on the ground the next.
the early blooms
are wilted; they’ll be gone when
the tight buds open.
spring gentians
twirl amid buttercups
on a green hilltop.
the cannonball tree:
blooms bright & intricate,
but never delicate.
in the Springtime,
wildflowers grow around
stones and boulders.
heavy-headed thistles
sway in the cow pasture,
bees read their motion.
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