Slipping

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In downtown Stockholm, the cherry blossoms draw crowds every year. For many years I almost never managed to be there in time to experience it at its peak. The experience of walking under the canopies looking skywards toward the pink ceiling with glimpses of blue sky between the boughs is something to remember.

I see families of all ethnicities taking pictures of their toddlers, elderly women with teenage smiles, and teens gathering new wisdom from the brevity of the falling flowers.

The next week the ground is covered in fallen petals while the first green leaves on bare branches mature.

between heartbeats
the kimono slipping —
a naked branch

Cherry blossom and crowd in downtown Stockholm.

Today Frank hosts dVerse Haibun monday with the task of addressing the cherry bloom as a prompt.

With the updated ChatGPT I could not help but also adding a Manga Style drawing of myself under the blooming trees.

Me under the Cherry, blooms generated from this photo of myself.

April 28, 2025

18 responses to “Slipping”

  2. luv your AI

    we do not have a festivsl gor viewingbpur Poui trees but we are ever in awe year after year

    much♡love

  10. The cherry blossoms seem to unite people under the canopy of pink. Love the haiku so well done. Bjorn.

  12. You paint a heart-warming picture of downtown Stockholm, Björn, and I’d like to think it is the same the world over, families of all ethnicities ‘walking under the canopies looking skywards toward the pink ceiling’. I love the haiku.

  14. The scene is so similar to ours with “all ethnicities taking pictures”. The beauty of nature can unify us all if we let it.

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