sleep on a journey then you will understand my poem autumn winds alliterating whispers in their gathering of leaves into the sea throwing my sandals rain on my hat splashing salt and freshwater embrace with a breezy kiss mid-harvest a crane on the rice paddy in a village in autumn a wisp of grey happiness […]
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Chrysanthemum Dew
how glorious young green leaves flash in the sun revealing new tenderness after glorious blossom a skylark sings the pheasant’s voice is the instrumental music following the dawn chorus a composition for two early summer rains falling so heavily they cover up the waterfall conjures rainbows and applause long after the thunderstorm passing through autumn […]
Logged Tree
logged tree see the larger cut end is a harvest moon pale rings of age radiate […]
Of Age and Cherry Trees
inside the temple visitors cannot know cherries are blooming their ephemeral flowers blushing like youthful geisha the old woman a cherry tree blooming in old age is something to remember branches laden with blossom trembling in a brisk spring breeze what a sprout a dewdrop seeps down the nodes of generations of bamboo youthful innocence […]
writing in north norfolk 