February 26, 2015 by ebbtide 2.26.2015 Art, Poet's Journal art, colored pencil, flower, ink, Japanese poetry, loss, love, mixed media, Ono no Komachi, poem, poet's journal, Poetry, rain, sketch, solitude, waiting, watercolor 6 Comments after a poem by Ono no Komachi too soon the bloom has slipped from the stem – a light lost over the deepening sill of evening and back and forth, the beads are slipped slowly down the thread while I wait with the rain