Excellent JIYU-SHI Japanese Poem For The Contest One Thousand Cranes : ~ Bevy of Doves ~ by Gypsy Blue Rose      JIYU-SHI - Japanese Poem Contest Winner

Bevy of doves perched         on sweet wisteria boughs   as cool spring rain drips       over the old man’s garden where he sits daily         to reminisce about life  and his sweet, Jasmine       the love of his life, now dead       but not departed        she lives in fragrant flowers   the laughter of kids        and love in his beating heart     JIYU-SHI - Japanese Poem Contest Winner Author Notes Wisteria is a flower native to Asian countries but found around the world. Some species are popular ornamental plants that grow in late Spring or early Summer. Wisteria brachybotrys "Shiro-Beni" Smells sweet but other species smell bad. Bevy - a group of doves Painting by Kawase JIYU-SHI is a Japanese freestyle poetry introduced to American poetry between 1912 to 1926. You write 5 syllables on the first line and 7 syllables on the second lines ( 5/7 stanzas), you can write as many stanzas as you like. Never rhymes. Keep complete thoughts in each line and connect the lines grammatically. Thank you very much for taking the time to read and review my poem.

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