April 27, 2020 Poem: “Sakura”

 


Sakura
 
 
It was a tune, a light air,
in the second or third piano book.
 
You practiced all that wet spring,
young girl with vast imagining.
 
I recall how you would look
out through the glass door
 
at the April rain streaming,
turn back to practice, to dreaming
 
of pink blossoms, of blooming.
 
 
Leslie Schultz


I found the image above yesterday. Tim and I took a walk downtown. I carried an umbrella which I needed on the way home as we encountered one of those delightful brief storms when it rains as the sun is shining. We sheltered for a few moments under the awning of the Blue Monday Coffee Shop, where I saw these other umbrellas in two- and three-dimensions.

(Photo: Couleur of Pixabay )
Before a Piano Lesson