Earnest Prayer
May I one day wake to find all my words have turned to cherry blossoms. ~ [ 2116 ]
Tag Archive for ‘Cherry Blossoms’
Blossoming
I am what I am — a star, the cherry tree — an outstretched hand. ~ [ 2115 ]
The Haiku Habit
In terms of poetry, I find the seventeen-syllable habit a good one, and I’ve written many in this mode and haven’t found it limiting. I call them haiku, and several have been published here and elsewhere as such within that very fluid definition. Splitting hairs over form is something in which I don’t engage. Times change; language changes; people change; stones, ponds, stars, cherry blossoms, remain the same. Haiku or […]
The Long View
The cherry knows, the oak, the pine, the walnut; the shore, the tide, the moon; all embody the art of taking the long view, and each is a stirring example of how to live and let live. Whatever comes, goes; whatever rises, falls; whatever breathes, thrives for a time, then dies. The sun burns away. The storm ends. The ones we hated, condemned, and feared go crying to their graves, […]
Cherry Snow
The tulips are several weeks behind. All over the neighborhood, the plants are distorted, and seem to be twisting themselves up out of the ground. They remind me of Van Gogh’s cypresses. Even now with the weather warming slightly, we’ve yet to see a single open bloom. The cherries, though, are finally at their peak and are beginning to snow. Here and there, resting under the trees facing the State […]
April Fool
A cold, wet spring. Tulips several weeks behind. Are they snowflakes or cherry blossoms? I’ll let the robins decide. . [ 1705 ]
Maybe This Is Why
One street over, there’s a light that’s crowded ’round by a flowering wild cherry. Running past, the stars still out, it looks like the light itself ’s in bloom. Maybe this is why the robins sing at such an early hour — and why, When my heart and lungs are full with scent and sound, My feet, at least for a little while, don’t quite touch the ground. . [ […]
Weightless
Cherry blossoms — nothing to want in this world, and little to need. . [ 1416 ]
Perennial
Cherry blossoms — before, during, and after each of our wars. . [ 1415 ]
By the Light of the Half-Moon
Full is empty / empty is full / cherry blossoms / in my begging bowl . [ 1414 ]
William Michaelian 