Japanese Stroll Garden

Taking shelter
From
The sudden
Spring shower

In the
Japanese
Tea house
Of Hume Garden

We watched
The water
Run down
The rain chain

Until
The sky
Ran dry

And the
Last
Few
Watery beads

Clung
To
The copper
Rings

Like
Brief
Memories
In time

Bamboo

Bamboo -

Standing

Taller than stilts-

Sways,

But never wilts