Joanna Delalande & Oscar Luparia

Song of the Season

April breeze
leading my gaze
to the right place

In the spring quietness, I look at a tree in blossom. It has always been growing here, behind a high fence, almost imperceptible to hurrying passers-by. But now it seems to open the umbrella of beauty: a moment of silence and delight with myriad little flowers above my head, a subtle scent moving in the air. The morning rain decorated some petals with shiny droplets that now fall on my face, like gentle tears of this world.

Among white corollas I can see few small red buds; what will they become, colored leaves or new florets? Trying to find a special corner in the awakening of nature as we do for our dreams… Nothing lasts, but spring notes always return year after year.

singing birds—
a spark resurrects
the cheerfulness of a time

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Notes

Joanna Delalande: prose

Oscar Luparia: haiku

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About the Authors

Joanna Delalande was born in Poland and lives in Paris, between two cultures. She is passionate about literature, photography, painting, nature walks and music. Her senryu and haiku have been published in Failed Haiku, Chrysanthemum, and Scarlet Dragonfly Journal. Her writing and photographic works are shared on her website,. https://mesfleurs.wixsite.com/lfdj

Oscar Luparia (born in Vercelli, Italy, in 1956) is a trade unionist. Mountains, photography, and haiku are his main passions. Some of his poems have been published in international journals and websites. So far, he wrote six haiku collections, all available for free at https://archive.org/details/@oscar_luparia.

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