WINTER CHERRY 

Winter Cherry,
Planted when the Autumn sun
Poured its warmth
Into the soil.

Ten leaves
On that bare-backed tree,
Now ten buds
On the warm red wood.

Spring dancing
With delight.

Cherry blossom cascading.
White petals
Red tipped,
Kissed by the joyful lips
Of a new beginning.

              ©2021 Gwen Grant

We see things all the time that make no sense.  Things that set us wondering
how they exist  at all and this poem was made after I saw one such thing. 
We were walking up a very, very small mountain and I was wandering along
one of its paths, when I saw this one particular path. I followed it and found
that it led to the very edge of a high point.  Below, rocks were tumbling down
a steep and dangerous slope.  Why did the path exist?  I stood there with a
thousand questions, questions there was no answer to, as there never is
when we see something that doesn’t make sense.  The only thing to do then,
is to write a poem.

    PATHS

There are paths all over this mountain.
They run through rock
And over grass,
As if a thousand feet
Had worn them into the ground.

Some paths go on for ever,
Winding up and down
Until we can no longer see them.
Others run a little way,
Then stop.

We walk up and down these paths,
Wondering who made them.

Especially do we wonder who made the one
That runs straight off the edge of the rock.

                                         © 2018 Gwen Grant