The Month of Plums Turning Scarlet

hibai blossoming moon

her lips like umeshu

and a glow of keyboard screens

Author's Note

The title refers to the Sioux month of September. In Japanese culture plum trees of the hibai variety have a red heartwood. Plum blossoms represent persevereness in adversity, hope and the principles of virtue. Umeshu is the very best plum wine, sweet and fiery.

Reviews

[Samuel Pennell]

Haha! This poem is a truimph! I really love your work. I find it immensely fascinating. Please accept my friend request.

Your poetry is complex and beautiful. I always though there should be a poem named "Heliotrope," you seem like the person to write it!

It should have the line "the immense inner world of a chrysanthemum." Do you get the vibe of the poem? Let me know.

[Neverwhere]

Would you like me to try writing a poem and use the title heliotrope and see if I can get somewhere with it? Do you want a floral motif? or a Japanese one, since you like Mums?

[Samuel Pennell]

Whichever. Both! You could combine the Japanese and the floral. :)

[Neverwhere]

I am trying to write a series of linked Haikus right now based on the story, "The Crane Wife", using flower language to add depth to them, after I read, "The Language of Flowers", by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, which had been recommended to me on the Goodreads site... I will try to think about both ideas and also I am working on an rp for "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern, will keep you posted.

[Samuel Pennell]

Very interesting. You sound busy! I'll let you go, but keep me posted.

[bobc]

Very, very good. Keep at it...bobc