Author: brenda

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Let the winds of heaven

Blow through the paths among the clouds

And close their gates.

Then for a while I could detain

These messengers in maiden form.~Sôjô Henjô

Hammad Rais’ Weekend Sky

summer flowers

bound homeward under

clear summer skies:

bird feathers, flowers.~Keido*

monochrome blossoms … Cee’s fotd

*cited: Yoel Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems

monochrome madness

early morning sun…submitted for Leanne’s photo challenge

macro monochrome

sunday morning with Amy Tan

“She holds up the cage with the owl. ‘But now I have a beautiful cat-eagle that can carry with him my new wish. When he flies away, all my old sadnesses will go with him. Then both of us will be free.'”~Amy Tan*

*cited: Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses.

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Twilight watering…

and please,

a cooling sprinkle

for wrens and crickets ~Kikaku*

Hammad Rais’ Weekend Sky

*cited: The Eternal Grasshopper

cmmc – close up

At night in my sleep

embraces the summer shadows

of my life. ~Oto*

Cee’s August’s cmmc: close up or macro

*cited: Y Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems

thursday morning with Sho-u

the first dream of the year —

I kept it a secret

and smiled to myself ~Sho-u

wordless wednesday – 8.2.23

a visitor

The whole world is you,
yet you keep thinking
there is something else.~Hsueh Feng

sunday morning with rilke

“And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact there is something in you that wants to break out of it.”

~Trans: M. D. Heater Norton (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet)

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An Elder Dragon

is a tiny Dragon

who never gave up.~James Norbury (Big Panda and Tiny Dragon)

Hammad Rais’ Weekend Sky