First Spring Blossoms

first spring blossoms
streaming down in the
hot-pink wind
against an azure sky
one by one
exuding
their spicy perfume
into the earth’s pores
intoxicating scents
swirling
around & around
making the air
heavy & drunk

below inside
the mother tree
a cluster of blue flowers
sprouting like children
opening
their arms
heavenward
awaiting their maturity
to shed
their petals
to pour out their
fiery fragrance
to become
one with the
earth

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Pamela A.Babusci

Pamela A. Babusci is an internationally award-winning haiku/tanka poet and haiga artist. Some of her awards include the Museum of Haiku Literature Award and the First Place Mount Fuji Tanka Contest (Japan). Her cover art has graced the books of Full Moon Tide, The Best of Tanka Splendor Awards, Taboo Haiku, Take Five: Best Contemporary TankaVol.1, The Delicate Dance of Wings, Chasing the Sun: selected haiku from HNA 2007 and moonbathing: a journal of women' s tanka. Pamela's haiga have been featured here at Haigaonline, and on The Haiku Foundation, Simply Haiku, Frameless Sky and numerous haiku and tanka journals.