I planted a bulb 3 years ago and this is the first time it has flowered. I am posting a poem I wrote in 2000 in celebration.
For Ogawa Shushiki 1669 – 1725
Iris colours bloom
Twenty-first century home
Visions of Heaven.
Dreamer of my dream
Haiku and cookie mistress
Long ago Japan.
Kakitsubata*
Eternal for the poet
Woken from life’s dream.
Wait in the iris garden
‘Til our purple lips shall kiss.
* Kakitsubata – Rabbit-eared iris
