Motionless Fire
(May Tanka)
A motionless fire,
the azalea unfolds, flares,
and slowly burns out.
From the mud it wrestles force,
colour, and returns to mud.
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Pink snowflakes drifting?
Forgotten miracle of
the cherry blossom!
Every spring, the petals sail
into death so serenely…
Christina Egan © 2016
Photographs: Pink azalea.
Christina Egan © 2016/2017.
