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THE REASON FOR FLOWERS


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Withered

Withered
..................
but I love flowers for their treachery
their fragile bodies
grace my imagination’s avenues

without their presence
my mind would be an unmarked grave.

~ Etel Adnan

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 Dinesh
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 Dinesh
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In Japan, the ‘waka’ poem is one of the most ancient and beloved forms of all of Japanese literature. ‘Waka’ have thirty-one syllables, arrabnged in five lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables. A flower poem by a famous Heian-period female poem, one of Kinto’-thirty six immortals of poetry, Ono no Komachi (825-900) follows:

The flowers withered,
Their color faded away,
While meaninglessly
I spent my days in the world
And the long rains were falling.

Beautiful, short Japanese poems have been used to express feelings for centuries, often written to celebrate special occasions. . . . Page 226


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