How we have overslept the spring morning!
Here, there, everywhere, birds
are heard twittering.
After a long night's clamour
of wind and rain, how many petals
have fallen to the ground?
Image: Fallen petals of delicate pink sakura blankets the ground of a shrine at Nishi Nippori, Tokyo. April 2012.
春眠不覺曉
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marvellous poem and photo that match my feeling and touch my soul
Fallen petals are sometimes more poetic than flowers in the trees
i really like this one
Thank you for sharing your feelings about fallen petals. I also feel the same way. When I saw these petals in this place at Nishi Nippori I was really moved. You are so right! Falling and fallen petals often evoke a great deal of emotions specially sadness perhaps because at that point we realise how ephemeral everything is.
ReplyDeleteI think the poem in Chinese is the original of the badly translated one in English!