It’s Haibun Monday again, and American Haikai Master Frank J Tassone asks us to join him at the dVerse Poets Pub and create/share a Haibun (prose/haiku combo) incorporating some reference to: first [cherry] blossoms (hatsu hana)
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Too Soon
He knows they’re out there somewhere, waiting to blossom and spread the new season’s joy; waiting to feast the poet’s eye; waiting to paint the landscape pink. But he knows that they’re out there, invisible, still trapped under the cherry tree’s branchbark; still cemented in place by the outgoing winter’s hopefully final sheath of icy snow.
Waiting for blossoms
—no fruit until mid-summer—
Vermont’s cherry trees
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Haibun Monday
~ hatsu hana ~
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Scrambled, Not Fried 
Nice one. Happy Monday.
much♡love
Ah, the taunt of a long, northern winter. Bravo, Ron!
Such a sweet piece my friend. 🍒🙂✌🏼🫶🏼
Nice one
With patience will come the blooms… eventually! Nicely done, Ron.
I love the anticipation in your haibun, Ron, I can feel it too. I love the idea of the blossoms trapped and ‘waiting to paint the landscape pink’.
Indeed… also here there is a long wait.
Trapped beneath the cherry bark, cemented in place…
Winter is hard, and the trees have to be harder.
Wonderful response to the prompt, Ron.
Beautiful, Ron.
Pat
They are out there. They will bloom. In time.
Location, location, location!
~David
The word waiting caught my attention in the midst of this.