[CALIBK12] GEN: Japanese Poem - Sakura (Cherry Blossom)

[Vickie Rabourn]

If you have any knowledge of the following poem, please reply to me
directly. Thank you.

Sakura - Cherry Blossom

Floating 
ever so gently
down
I still float
and yet so gracefully
down 
to meet
the eager earth
below
The earth, she says
to me 
Sakura
my beloved

Vickie Rabourn
Los Osos Middle School 
Teacher Librarian
San Luis Coastal USD
San Luis Obispo County, CA

"And he reads to them, as he does every night, as if watering them, as
if turning earth at their feet."   --James Salter