Tanka: Daughter Leaving the Nest - A Single Snowflake

Snowflakes dance, thoughts overflow on this auspicious day
The picture you paint is like sunlight filtering through trees

*Zuika (auspicious flower) refers to snow that is a sign of good fortune
It is a very beautiful expression in Yamato Kotoba

Zuika mau, yoki hi ni omoi, afure izu
Kimi egaku e wa, komorebi no you

On the day the snowflakes dance
As if my daughter is moving out

While eating cake
Our conversation flows

The process of my daughter growing up
Like a revolving lantern
Perhaps my thoughts are overflowing...

Once she became a middle schooler and high schooler
We had fun days filled with women's talk

A daughter leaving the nest

A mother seeing her off

As if to celebrate
My smiling beloved daughter
Snowflakes
One by one
Flutter down
Like angel wings

End

The Tanka and essay above
Were written after I read
An article by a certain creator

The wonderful distance between mother and daughter
And the warm atmosphere
Like sunlight through the trees touched my heart
It is January

Soon it will be March
Graduation season

With further education, employment, and transfers
Many people will be
Leaving their family homes

Finished

Thank you for reading
Until the end

Today and tomorrow, and for the rest of my life, only good things will happen
💕㊗️💕㊗️💕㊗️💕㊗️💕㊗️

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