Through the years
I’ve become used to sorrow,
there was not one spring
I didn’t leave behind
the flowers.
~Izumi Shikibu*
*cited:
The Ink Dark Moon
Trans: J Hirshfield & M Aratani
flowers
dusk deepening
Not seen at blossom time
dusk deepening
in green leaves
~Shinkei*
100 days…24th day
*cited:
Haiku before Haiku
Trans: S Carter
in my next life, let me be…
How joyous and kind!
In my next life, let me be
a butterfly afield.
~Issa*
100 days…16 days
*cited:
The Spring of My Life
Trans: S Hamill
tulips blossom
a world of trials,
and if the tulip blossoms,
it simply blossoms
flower gazing
in the midst of this world
we stroll along the edge of hell
gazing at flowers
~Issa
100 days…10th day
let’s go…view blossoms
Children,
let’s go to the mountain
to view violets.
If they scatter away tomorrow,
what can we do?
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K Tanahashi
blossom viewing
home from blossom viewing-
as I disrobe, many straps
cling to my body
Sugita Hisajo*
*cited:
Far Beyond the Field
Makoto Ueda
tires of…summer
for the man who says
he tires of his child
there are no flowers
~Basho*
*cited:
The Moon in the Pines
J Clements
summer’s fading
My own shadow
trodden on in the shallows-
cooling off
~Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Y Sawa & E Shiffert
thursday’s special: minuscule
carrying a poppy
flower trial garden
The Annual Flower Trial Garden at Colorado State University was established to allow students, researchers, industry representatives, homeowners and extension personnel to learn, teach, and evaluate through horticultural research and demonstration projects conducted in the unique environmental conditions of the Rocky Mountain/High Plans region.
So…officially it isn’t about beauty
a meditative journey 
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