71st

patient pear tree

offers tiny bud bouquets

to the cloudless blue

70th

pendulous blossoms

release ripening spring -

magnolia

69th

weeping cherry

your long flowing pink beard

makes me smile

68th

dogwood, magnolia -

your names are hidden to me

until you flower

67th

dogwood draped in white

how bittersweet the tossing

of your bouquet

66th

dark clouds open and

(bright crescent deeply set) close -

ephemeral gift

65th

brush of the sunset

dips low -

cherry blossoms