I'M BLIND BUT NOW I SEE

Poem  - for December 31, 2014

CHERRY BLOSSOMS

A blind child
Guided by his mother
Admires the cherry blossoms.

© Kikaku, Haiku,

translated into English

by Kenneth Rexroth

found in One Hundred

Poems from the Japanese,

New Directions, 1964 

December 31, 2014