FOR YVETTE

The Wind Has Settled

by Taigu Ryokan

The wind has settled, the blossoms have fallen;
Birds sing, the mountains grow dark --
This is the wondrous power of Buddhism. 

ISAIAH 2.4

they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

SHATTERED MIRROR SELFIE

Everything I touch

with tenderness, alas,

pricks like a bramble.

 

EVERY DAY IS MOTHERS DAY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day_%28United_States%29

PERSEPHONE RETURNS

"Wild violets are often associated with the Greek myth of Persephone, for she was out in the fields gathering the flowers when Hades abducted her into the Underworld; they are flowers of change, transition, transformation, and the cycle of death-and-rebirth." 

see http://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2016/04/wildflowers.html