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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
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Tulip 2sc

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

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