"will you be back tomorrow / can I sleep tonight"

[larryhammer]

So this weekend, janni gave me a poem challenge.

    The cherry petals
linger on as if to say,
    "Can't you enjoy spring
without lamenting over
how we'll scatter tomorrow?"

This was ... eye-openingly easy to write. It is entirely possible that I've been reading/translating too much Japanese poetry too quickly. That or I need to mix it up with more comic verse.

ETA a better word.

---L.

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

:-)

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

I really like that.