(Leaf 87) – Looking Back
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| Okuhara Seiko - Cherry Blossoms and Moon (c1900-1910) |
This poem was written in
Shinjuku Gyoen on 14th April 2009, just after I’d begun to attend Japanese
lessons nearby. It felt fun to be starting school again after so many years, now aged in my thirties. After class, I used to go to Shinjuku Gyoen – a lovely park, not far
from the ever bustling and busy Shinjuku Station – and relax there, a world
away from the urban surroundings, sitting on the grass with my books, studying
in the pleasant, but not yet too warm sunshine of spring.
Cherry blossom petals,
caught in the pages
of my school books.
