Another tanka for d’Verse Poetics on the prompt of Change.
pink cherry blossoms
from tiny buds now green leaves
form a canopy –
green leaves fluttering soon to
be withered leaves on my lawn.
d’Verse Poetics: Change #2 tanka
15 Sep 2015 22 Comments
in General Poetry, Haiku, Musings Tags: autumn, change, cherry blossoms, dVerse poetics, season change, tanka
kanzen sakura 
Sep 15, 2015 @ 18:50:07
Not yet….not yet ready for autumn, smiles ~ I love how it forms a canopy ~
Sep 15, 2015 @ 18:55:25
Oh I wish we were ready for autumn–but not yet–change is only in thee offing
Sep 15, 2015 @ 20:03:39
It is coming, I promise! Small signs but still there.
Sep 15, 2015 @ 20:46:12
Sad how everything withers, even cherry blossoms.
Sep 15, 2015 @ 20:48:36
It is. But that goes along with mujo, mono no aware – pathos at the passing of things.
Sep 15, 2015 @ 22:59:20
Gorgeous tanka 🙂
Sep 15, 2015 @ 23:00:04
Thank you.
Sep 16, 2015 @ 11:39:48
thank you!
Sep 16, 2015 @ 00:27:30
The next time you sneak into the castle by my house you must tell me you’re coming!
After a few hanami seasons here, I feel like I can say this is 100% accurate of the “after-hanami” scene. Oklahoma didn’t have any sakura to speak of, but this hits at my imagined nostalgia of the afterglow of hanami.
For this, I didn’t have to open a window to experience the coming of autumn. Well, well done.
Sep 16, 2015 @ 11:38:55
Thank you. Are the green trees after the blossoms fall called hazasakura? Can’t quite remember. But the sakura and plums both on our land here are starting a slow teasing striptease – gold leaf here, gold leave there. The dance of the zillion leaves.
Sep 16, 2015 @ 19:07:06
Honestly, I don’t know! I’ll have to ask some of my students today.
As for that striptease, those naughty little trees seem to be eager enough. I get the feeling they’ll just let it all hang out very soon. Scarlet is the color I see most here. 😀
Sep 16, 2015 @ 12:07:18
I’m’ just that tiny little priest cricket in the corner of the palace watching all and being basically invisible.
Sep 16, 2015 @ 00:29:56
I’m still clinging to summer, too…fending off the inevitable. But fall is lovely, too. Love the canopy.
Sep 16, 2015 @ 00:39:43
Still the leaves a clinging… A little while more.
Sep 16, 2015 @ 11:34:01
Still clinging here but…it was 70F this morning – rather chilly after yesterday being 80F.
Sep 16, 2015 @ 16:14:45
Nature’s change is always an impressive show. Well, except maybe for here…fall is usually very slow to show up.
Sep 16, 2015 @ 16:33:47
I’ve had some experience with it but not much. I love up here where autumn kind of sneaks up and then….BAM! autumn!
Sep 21, 2015 @ 20:33:50
Change is coming. I can already see the leaves are changing color.
Sep 21, 2015 @ 21:49:31
Yes it is. I am ready!
Sep 21, 2015 @ 21:56:11
That is one thing I love about living in the Midwest – the change of seasons. I enjoy each one, but am always excited at the change.
Sep 22, 2015 @ 15:24:40
I must confess, the only thing that makes me excited about hot humid summer are fresh tomatoes and peaches! But it is such a different visual for each season and truly, they all are beautiful.
Sep 22, 2015 @ 16:44:53
Agree