Cherry Blossom Serenade (napowrimo 2021: day 7)

by prasanna   Apr 7, 2021


your cheeks pinken like cherry-blossoms coming to,
on a warm spring morning, on this crisp april morning.
i can pluck the poems that branch from your smile, and
i'll graft it straight into my arteries, and blossom poems
for you all year round – as long you provided all the
warmth, sunlight, and water i could possibly need.

and when you shed your flowers under the weight of
monsoon or its winds – i'll be there, to collect them
all and press them into your journal.

you're meant to bloom for more
than a month.

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  • 3 years ago

    by Poet on the Piano

    "you're meant to bloom for more
    than a month."

    - That took my breath away. I felt like that would be a beautiful tattoo, a reminder of our worth year-round, that despite the times when we feel at our lowest, when we don't shine as bright and feel we have nothing to offer, we still matter.

    There's always a tenderness in your verses, and I found that to be especially true here. The idea of "blossoming poems", and being that caretaker in a way, as long as that is reciprocated and you are also sheltered and listened to, was heartwarming. I also saw this as, even when we have nothing tangible or physical to attribute our success to, we are ever growing. We're always adapting, leaving traces of ourselves, even if we don't shed our flowers. Or even, when the winds knock us down and strip us of our outside armor (thinking of Hayley William's latest album "Petals for Armor"), we can still be something. Through being vulnerable, through recreating. Being animated again, even if what grows out of us and what we grow from is painful.

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