In Cherry Blossom Time
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Throughout our winters, most if not all of us look forward to spring, and yet it is not only climate change that the world has to fear, nor does change always mean progress in any context.
Throughout our winters, most if not all of us look forward to spring, and yet it is not only climate change that the world has to fear, nor does change always mean progress in any context.
IN
CHERRY BLOSSOM TIME
Cherry blossom and empty crisp
packets
drifting
by on a breeze
Empty
crisp packets, like lonely people
drifting
by on a street
Streets,
like lines on the faces of martyrs
drifting
by on clouds
Clouds,
trying hard not to cry for a world
getting
by on crutches
Crutches,
supporting old guard politicians
getting
by on half lies
Half
lies, camouflage for good intentions
getting
by for centuries
Centuries,
a colourful history of cleaning
other
people’s windows
Windows
on religions swearing to their fruit
like
cherry blossom
Cherry
blossom and empty crisp packets
drifting
by on a breeze...
Copyright R. N. Taber 2010
[Note: First published in Tracking the Torchbearer by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2012.]
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