The sakura (cherry blossom) are late this year - some trees are edging towards full bloom and others have barely opened up. Roadsides were flushed with pink today as we took the highway bus from Kumamoto to Fukuoka.
We're off on our grand adventure - volunteering at two farms here in Japan - and I'm so looking forward to it. Plenty of haiku inspiration, I'm sure. Here are my NaPoWriMo scribbles for today.
4.
starting a new book
gobbling it up too fast
stop, wait, enjoy it
5.
empty or bone dry
be your cup this night and yet
the moon, still shining
6.
yellow roses are,
in Paris, betrayal's sign,
elsewhere, only love
7.
endless waterfall
good food flowing down my throat
oh constipation
8.
daffodils bright face
nodding with me in the breeze
yes, I understand
9.
just like my grandma
daffodils nodded, at what?
what's wrong? what is right?
10.
sharp arresting scent
flower whose name I know not
I'll see you next spring
11.
from my concrete perch
where once was only forest
sakura viewing
12.
child with recorder
'when the saints go marching in'
this peaceful hillside
13.
traipsing the forest
silent beauty abounding
something smells of shit
P.S. The book I'm flying through is Angela Duckworth's Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. It's awesome.