Poetry Friday

It's Cherry Blossom Time! Not only is it the prettiest time of year here in DC (at least when the weather cooperates) but it's my second favorite time of year to drive to work.* I spent a lot of time stuck in traffic on the 14th Street Bridge, but it offers a great view of all the cherry trees lining the Potomac.

(that's me at the festival last spring ETA Photo taken by Dan, who is awesome and should not have been left out of the original post!)



Here's a haiku I wrote while stuck in traffic in 2008:

Cherry blossom rain
Makes way for unfurling leaves
The river sparkles



Today's Poetry Friday round up is over at A Year of Reading!


*My most favorite is August, when Congress and the rest of the government go on vacation so there's very little traffic.

Cherry Blossoms are poetic!

It's cherry blossom time in DC! So, here is a poem about cherry blossoms. I took this picture during a rare bit of sun today, these trees are at the end of the block and I love the way the look reflected in the office building.



LOVELIEST OF TREES
By A.E. Housman

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride,
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.


Ayuddha.net has the round up!