Friday 15 February 2008

Winter love tanka


Our love departed
like frost from garden grass
warmed by the sun -
how the limbs of my plum tree
presage white blossom.

3 comments:

paisley said...

i feel the longing here,, but there is a certain trepidation that comes with once again opening ones arms... even to blossoms.....

Debi said...

Ya done good, Carole! Keep writing those beautiful tanka. - Debi

poefusion said...

Beautiful~