A TUESDAY FEATURE
host: Muskaan Ahuja
guest editor: Hifsa Ashraf
Flowers and Insects
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
A flower symbolizes joy and happiness that brings freshness and energy in our lives and in the lives of many creatures. Everyone must have enjoyed some funny childhood rhymes about flowers and insects. The buzz of a bee, the kiss of a butterfly, the swift flight of dragonfly from flower to flower, and the chirp of a cricket from a flowering bush, there is a lot to explore in nature and by adding humour in it may take you back to your own childhood.
In this context, a famous poem of Basho that I always find funny:
a bee
staggers out
of the peony
-- Basho Matsuo
and Issa's haiku:
garden butterfly—
the child crawls, it flies
crawls, it flies
-- Kobayashi Issa
Please write a poem up to five lines and bring smile on our faces.