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The Wishing Tree

For WakaFest150 – June 2019, celebration of the arrival of Japanese colonists at Wakamatsu Farm in 1869 – we had a “wishing tree” of bamboo for people to tie handwritten haiku, wishes, and thoughts for the day. Lacking that bamboo “tree” for Saturday’s “Gratitude” Open Farm Day, we had to improvise. I salvaged an oak branch from the slash pile and trimmed it to useful size. Here's a tanka I hung on the “wishing tree”:


Blessings on the Bough


We hang our wishes

and thanks on an oak bough trimmed

with last year’s empty

acorn cups, to fill with this

year’s blessings on wind

that sails our words far beyond

our pens, to grow like acorns.


~ Taylor Graham




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