New Year Haiku, 2021
( apologies…I can’t post this haiku with the right spacing no matter how many times I tried…)
Kadomatsu greets
America, ah, blessings
from eastern wind, yes.///
three immovable
bamboo, roped and held for strength
yet, fragile in wind. ///
green pine from knotted,
snarled fingers of a bonsai,
a thousand year life///
‘neath symbolic greens
the Emperor’s golden sunburst,
a chrysanthemum///
such blessings, New Year,
from simple pine and bamboo.
a happy new year.
Frances Kakugawa 2021
My make-shift kadomatsu from my limited Sacramento yard.
Happy New Year, Frances, and may we meet sometime in the near future! Aloha, Eloise
Let’s put that on our wish list for the new year, Eloise. Happy new year.