POEM #6 (2nd poetry prompt - place) - Imagining Japan’s Cherry Blossom Petals

It's serene, it's simple, it's lively.

Japan the land of the rising sun

Japan the land of cherry blossoms

Japan the land of red and white

Japan the land of secrecy, dedication, and passion.

 

Imagine a graduation full of colleagues,

Where a helicopter circles around and its raining cherry blossom petals

Imagine a proposal under a cherry blossom tree in mid-autumn,

And as the wind blows, cherry blossom petals flow everywhere.

 

Imagine a wedding like no other, bells clanging

As exchanging vows a bundle of petals run past you

As if spirits were singing, rustling, congratulating you

With blooming cherry blossoms and petals swiveling in a common secrecy.

 

Bring in the cherry blossoms from its trees where petals flow

Bring in the petals that cackled under the winter snow

Bring in the lovers joined by a mutual understanding

Bring in the passion created by these petals of hardship.