Weekly Scribblings -- Poem for Words in The Way of Tea

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Blackfoot' 

 Hotaru-gari – 

(go searching for fireflies) 

Fireflies in need 

The jar is empty 

Dumped by the roadside 

Older ones grown dim 

Had they batteries 

LEDs delight 

So if you grow old 

Smooth your wrinkle lines 

Step lively my dear 

Lest they dump you 

in the ditch 

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2021, All Rights Reserved 

 - I'm linked with Rommy for prompt and your viewing, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/01/weekly-scribblings-53-beautiful-words.html

 - for this week's Weekly Scribblings, Rommy would like us to create new poetry or prose using one (or as many as we want) of the poetic terms she selected out of Bruce Hamana Sosei’s book, 100 Beautiful Words in The Way of Tea, (seven listed below).

For Artistic Interpretation, for Weekly Scribblings #53: Beautiful Words

Zuiun – clouds that predict good fortune; Shitamoe – plants sprouting under last year’s dried grass or under the snow; Hatsuyume – the first dream of the new year Uzumibi – buried fire; Ryokuin – green shadows (sunlight filtering through green leaves) Hotaru-gari – go searching for fireflies Tsuki-koru – the moon freezes