金木犀
その木と知らず
過ごす日々
It's an orange osmanthus
I didn't know a name of you
I was passing you sometimes
雨が時折降ってくる。降っていると思っていると不意に止む。重ったるいグレイの雲は遠くの空の隅に居座っている。真上の雲は明るい色をしている。当分は降らないだろうと思い外に出た△
アスファルトの道は濡れて光っている。今しがた雨が止みました、と告げているようだ。今はちょっと曖昧な時なのを証明するかのように、乾いたようなすっきりとした風と、湿気を少しだけ含んだもやっとした風が、風向きが変わるたびに交代で吹いてくる△
いつもこの場所で会える猫が二匹いる。そのうちの一匹は最近見かけない。別の場所で出くわして(と言うのは相手の猫が驚いたような顔をしていたから)以来、会っていない。今日も白い猫はいて、車輪の下ならぬ車の下で香箱を作っていた。小さく声をかけると、目をパチパチしてくれた。猫も挨拶返し△
コンクリートの壁に沿って進んでいく。ごく小さな葉を密集させた植物が、壁と壁のスキマから顔を覗かせている。それを横目で見て通り過ぎる△
左に曲がってから住宅街の道を、目的のスーパーに向かって黙々と歩いていく。進行方向にこんもりとした一本立ちの樹があって、この樹がここに以前よりずっと立っているのは知っている。何も思わずにただ通り過ぎるだけだった。しかし葉の茂みにオレンジ色の塊が見える△
それは、金木犀の花だった。ほんの小さな花だが鮮やかなオレンジ色をしていて香りは意外と薄い。今日はこの樹が、金木犀だったと知った日になった。
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これより上は、天声人語のルール(603字/6段落)に沿って書いてみる、に勝手にただ今挑戦しています。お読み下さり、ありがとうございました^^！
It's frequently raining. I thought that it rained but not it stopped. The clouds that looked like heavy was stayed at the corner of the sky. Around here, there were brighten clouds around here. I gussed that it was not going to rain, anyway.
The asphalt roads were wet but shining. It would have told me that it has just stopped raining. It was not obscurity yet but not so bright, between day and night. The winds might have explained us about that, the one was dry and cool but the other one was a bit wet, that were chainging when the directions of wind swtitched places.
I've seen two cats there. But recently, I have'nt seen one of them. I saw a cat that looked like one of the cat(stripe), but I was not sure, beause the cat ran away as soon as we bumped into each other. The other cat(white), he(she?) was under the car, he made his body like a box.
I was walking ahead along the concrete walls. I found a little plant that had very tidy leaves at the narrow gap on the walls. I took a glance at them when passing by.
Turning left then walking straight to the supermarket. There was only on tree that had many green leaves and height was taller than me at my direction. I've know the tree there. I was going to just pass by. But I found that something orange colour among the leaves.
That's was orange osmanthus! Their flower, the colour was vivid but the fragrance was soft though I thought stranger. It was the day that I had known this tree was orange osmanthus.
*I'm not sure if my English grammars are correct.
