Hang on! Survive and thrive.

This poem is a Tanka.
A tanka is another poetry type related to the haiku. The first three lines are unrhymed. They have a syllable count of five, seven, five like the haiku. But the last two lines both have seven syllables. So the syllable count is: (5, 7, 5, 7, 7). It contains 5 unrhymed lines. this structure is a guideline. To accomodamodate the Japanese structure it should contain 20 to 22 syllables with a short - long - short - long - long structure.
Photo by the author, taken in the early spring before the leaves have sprouted again.

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