Poetry Month: Cherry Blossoms

Kannon's tiled temple  
roof floats far away in clouds  
of cherry blossoms  
~Basho

Storming over

Lake Nio, Whirlwinds 

of cherry blossoms.

~Basho

The leafless cherry,
Old as a toothless woman,
Blooms in flowers,
Mindful of its youth.
~Basho

What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.
~Issa


Drinking up the clouds,
It spews out cherry blossoms -
Yoshino Mountain.
~Buson

shining on the sea...
dazzling sunlight shaking over
hills of cherry-bloom
~Buson