Welcome to Poetry Friday, this week hosted by Margaret Simon on her blog Reflections on the Teche, Here. What is Poetry Friday? Find out HERE.
On her blog, Margaret will be posting the next line of the Poetry Friday PROGRESSIVE POEM, now in delightful full swing. Thank you for hosting!
Many individual poets celebrating National Poetry Month. For example, I am posting a new haiku a day and today that will be #7.
To find out which poets are doing what on Poetry Friday during National Poetry Month, click HERE. You will find a round up of NPM blog events on Jama’s blog, Jama’s Alphabet Soup.
As I thought about the haiku for this post, I remembered this is the week when Cherry Blossoms bloom in Washington D.C. I thought they were breathtaking to look out when I lived there. The trees were a gift in 1912 from Japan to the United States. More about this interesting history HERE.
This picture gives you an idea, only a rough feel for what it’s like to walk among so many cherry blossoms.
Spring in Washington D.C. April visitors— pink clouds of cherry blossoms in sky and water. © Janice Scully 2023
Happy National Poetry Month!
I like this cherry blossom haiku. Perfect for the season. We’ve been to DC’s Cherry Blossom Parade a few times, and had so much fun.
How did you get a picture without crowds? Usually even at pre-dawn hours there are a bajillion people there. Peak bloom came early this year. I don’t brave the crowds, just enjoy the cherry blossoms in my neighborhood instead. You should send your haiku to this contest: https://www.towpathhaiku.com/national-childrens-museum-call-for-haiku/
Thank you so much, Marcie. I will submit it.
Thank you for sharing your haiku Janice! It’s lovely.
I once visited DC during cherry blossom season. Pink clouds describe them well. I loved how it would seem to rain pink petals when the wind blew.
I’d like to return and see them again someday. It is magical to see any kind of flower in abundance.
I’ve never seen them but the pictures amaze! I love your thought of “in sky and water”, Janice.
I have always wanted to see the “pink clouds” in person. Japanese Cherry Blossom is my favorite Bath & Body Works scent! Lovely poem
Yes, definitely send your haiku in for the Cherry Blossom Festival contest, Janice!
Ah those pink clouds! Lovely, Janice!
Thank you, Irene. For some reason can’t respond to your post, but love your wedding photo and the bright goats and light in your poem.
This is the second reference to Washington DC I ‘ve encountered this week. I much prefer your focus than the political mauling the city received in an article I was reading. Haiku seems most appropriate when writing about cherry blossom, Janice. Like the scene your words describe.
Janice, the photo and haiku are a beautiful pairing of poetic goodness. We did not travel to D.C. because the weather was iffy at the peak, cherry blossom time but the cherry blossoms lining the streets in my area are magnificent. When we moved to Virginia we wanted to plant a weeping cherry tree. It is in its dwarf phase but this year’s buds were beautiful but small ones. Have a happy Easter. If you have an image poem to share of Syracuse in springtime, please do so for my Springsations Gallery.
What could be more perfect than a haiku for these storied cherry trees! I’m sure they’re gorgeous, but I’m partial to the more understated understory tree, the redbud.
Those cherry trees are indeed gorgeous and represent the promise of spring. Thanks for your lovely haiku!! Happy NPM, happy writing!
My visits to D.C. have never been in April – but the cherry blossoms remind me of my sister and brother-in-law’s almond ranch and the annual white blossoms that decorate their orchards – the joyful welcome of fruits and nuts!
I like your haiku ‘cherry’ much, Janice. Someday I hopt to see the blossoms in DC. 🙂
I love that you brought the blossom’s reflection in then water. I have a good friend in Japan that posts on the Cherry blossoms there, thanks!