The Blackbird Under the Jujube – Wordle – November 21, 2015

                             that snowy afternoon

whistling under the jujube tree
moving cautiously
following rhythms of an ancient lay
the blackbird pierced the fog
with its jolly song,
with a pantomime of indifference
there in the whirling snow storm …

elsewhere

barbaric drum beats echoed
inside a smoke-filled tavern
there bawds and bullies laughed and played
in a charade of carefree joy
in rhythmic discordance …
they never heard the blackbird’s song
under the jujube tree.

© G.s.k. ‘15

 

 

blackbird, afternoon, whistling, barbaric, pierced, pantomime, bawds. whirled, moving, tree, snowing, rhythms

 

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Photo originally found at. Trees That Please Nursery

OctPoWriMo Day 26 – Morning Haiku and Waka – October 26, 2015

Jujube Tree

under the jujube tree
three sparrows chatter with glee
free fallen fruit

under the fall moon
a civet owl calls – who who
in the jujube tree

under this roof lives
a cat and four students
in the garden
the cat climbs the jujube tree
hunting for gormless sparrows

 © G.s.k. ‘15

Though the fruit of the jujube is often called red date, Chinese dates, Korean dates, or Indian dates, they are in fact nothing at all like a date.  They look (and taste) like tiny apples as I discovered this fall at my son’s house.  Bastet

Haiku Horizons – Under

OctPoWriMo – Day 26

Jujube Tree – Haiku – October 23, 2015

jujube tree

sweet illusions
jujube fruit in the night light
no paper fans

© G.s.k. ‘15

Carpe Diem #841