This Spring – Haiku

日暮東風怨啼鳥，落花猶似墜樓人。
金谷園
杜牧
At sunset the east wind carries the resentful cries of birds,
Fallen blossoms resemble the beauty, who jumped off the house.
Garden of the Golden Valley
By Du Mu*

Morning fog

Granny forgot her glasses

On the nose 

 

Old plum tree

Shaking off the snow

Ready to bloom 

 

Too bad

As for corona virus

No return to sender

 

Spring meadow

White death this morning

So pretty 

 

Winter jasmine

Last night’s hoarfrost

Left some tears 

 

Corona virus

The winner will be last

At the finish line

 

Kyoto temple

The first blossom to fall

An earthquake 

 

 

Tibet's prayer flags

May the wind take the prayers

And find nirvana

 

Morning in gray

Crows still wear black

Headlights poking

 

Gusts of wind

Playing with cars

And the traffic news 

 

Crowning their lives

With lack of social distance

Mourning has broken

 

A country drive

All shrouded in mist

Dad's everyday 

 

Window shopping

Beggar sitting on the ground

Next window 

 

New blossoms withered

During this last frosty night

Did not cry even 

 

Stranded

Corona castaway

Salty tears

 

Mother’s 90th birthday

She loves daffodils

Used to 

 

The night is broken

Frost has killed the flowers

Your fear did not break

 

Spring sunshine

A walk with the kids

Virus stays inside 

 

Spring

Bright sunshine

Virus stays inside

 

Last leaf

Gone with the wind

No movie 

 

Violet crocus buds

In the midst of fresh snow

Spring is a fraud

* Du Mu (杜牧) lived  from 803 till about 852. He is one of the major pots of the Tang dynasty and therefore we find his poems in the anthology 300 Poems of the Tang Dynasty.

Pictures:
1. Sunset at a beach in Sri Lanka 1976, overexposed, but with genuine dust on the slide, stored 40 years in the cellar.
2. Spring 2013 Higashiyama, Kyoto.
3. Spring 2021 about a kilometer off my home.

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