Flower Farewell Poems

Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku

Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.

Having seen the moon
I can bid...

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Inoculate…
this infectious night
fullest pathogen born  
in cold and deepest hour
heedless held in palm endow  
crosses shadow lowly hill 
flick across my brow…
 ...

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It Was Spring When I Met You. 

I met you in the spring,
When blue birds gather and sing,
With butterflies' wings fluttering,
Stirring above flower petals.

Our whole...

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I burned your placemat.
A sunny yellow flower.
I used it at my desk.
It was ANOTHER thing I had ruined.
You emphasized ANOTHER.
Another thing I can't do right.
Another...

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You have raided my night again,
as the burst of a sudden storm,
sneaking into my loneliness,
at the most unexpected hour,
plunging me into swirls of pain
too deep...

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Written: June 16, 2023



Dead flower's last bud
ebbing mana of the wane yearns -
a rotting flower mourns

she has a yen for the

brimming sun song weaves
shielding in...

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When i think of my girlhood,
 It is quiet. My memories hazy
digital snapshots.

Silence filled rooms, which
I tried to color with my thoughts
Only they were unwanted

Never...

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lying in my gyrate mind,
     I can no longer hold on to the troubles that are mine,
    ...

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Adrift her world no obstacles no dreams to moor, immobilized and still  
she sailed through stardust particles then glode into the nil 
Into the...

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No words can express how much I miss you and your wise words.  Guess from now on we will speak, heart to heart *soul...

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August sings summer's sad farewell tune.
Blossoms smile happily ere they fade.
Birds nap; distant rainclouds gather soon.
Leaves still, then quietly sleep in shade.
August hush in fevered...

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A DYING LOVE AFFAIR

No matter my endeavors, she returns every year
Whether, she totally does understand my despair

To this yearly seasonal unrequited sad love affair
As to...

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As I sat nestled in the brush,
could I knowingly cast doubt,
no other creature was in a rush,
only humanity wanted out,
poisoned rivers with toxic landfills, 
decorated...

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Feel beauty  fading
 from last flowers of the year
heart already felt......

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For crying out loud, the flowers are gorgeous, 
Fresh, happy, young, alive, and vivacious.
Regrettably, we, humans, cut their lives short, 
From time to time, from...

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