Washington cherry blossoms On tidal basin's shore - Hear me: You are awesome And I your sight adore - Branches like stems of roses Flowers like butterflies Resting in lustful poses Like Dali's model lies - Pink, white and full of splendor - Sensual, warm delight - Elegant, loving, tender - Luminous to the sight: How I love rubbing on you Cheek on the flowering branch - Let me caress you, fawn you And with you my thirst quench - Washington cherry blossoms - Children of clouds and rain Tending to all the lost ones - Making them live again - Bringing the world around you Into your soft caress - Holding them as they're drowning In your white-pinkish dress - Filling their hearts with softness And with your tender bliss - Making them potent, dauntless - Warriors for love and peace - Warriors for what you know! Warriors for what you are! Rising, row upon row, Willing to travel far - To lands of death and darkness, To lands of fear and doom - To lands unfathomed, chartless And bring those lands to bloom: Bloom like your gorgeous branches! Bloom in the pink and white! Bloom, like the water quenches Thirst, or sun dispels night! Bringing with them your kindness And all that's good and true - And there you'll surely find us: Lovers of life - and you. https://sites.google.com/site/ibshambatpoetry
For those of you who did not know, cherry blossoms can actually be regarded as a subspecies group in the same broader species category as regular eating cherries. They actually both have the same number chromosome sets (unlike other cherry species which have double the number). Cherry blossoms can sometimes produce tiny drupelet fruits that are not fit for eating, though the birds eat them. Almost all of the cherry blossoms you will commonly see are only of two varieties, Yoshino and Kanzan. Yoshino is very poor at producing pollen, which is why drupelet fruits are rarely seen, while the pink Kanzan cultivar has a mutation that makes it sterile, but it does have flowers with much more numerous petals. They are most often sold these days grafted onto a different type of cherry as rootstock. This keeps the trees from growing too big, since otherwise cherries are very fast growers and can get very tall. However, it is unnatural, leads to less healthy trees, and greatly reduces the tree's potential lifespan. In China, flowering plum (actually related to apricot rather than plum) is traditionally much more popular than flowering cherry.
That's lovely I... except don't touch the flowers... such beauty should be enjoyed from afar, flowers don't like to be touched ps I have two ornamental cherry trees in my garden, they are stunning in Spring
