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weekly photo challenge: work of art

OLD FORM

Did Chuang Chou dream

he was a butterfly,

Or the butterfly

that it was Chuang Chou?

In one body’s

metamorphoses,

All is present,

infinite virtue!

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You surely know

Fairlyland’s oceans

Were made again

a limpid brooklet,

Down at Green Gate

the melon gardener

Once used to be

Marquis of Tung-ling?

Wealth and honour

were always like this:

You strive and strive,

but what do you seek?

                            ~Li Po*

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submitted for this week’s photo challenge: Work of Art.

 

cited:

*Li Po and Tu Fu

Trans:Arthur Cooper

weekly photo challenge: reflection

Same Dream, Same Mirror 

We have dreamt the same dream

during many unraveling autumns;

one joy, one worry binds us.

…

We put on faces

before the same mirror:

our small flight of swallows

is secure.  We hear

inmortal music

on ancient bronze bells.

…

            ~Chen Yinke*

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The Rose is without Why

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*source:

Ancestral intelligence

Vera Schwarcz

 

weekly photo challenge: threes

…We just find our selves here.

With our individual birth we just ‘wake up’ and discover ourselves in the midst of an extraordinary world of beauty and sorrow.

All around us we see exquisite and exquisitely subtle orders played out effortlessly. …it is all just here and we are just here to see it…*

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a broad photo of angel-wing begonia blossoms placed with a coffee cup with a book making up the background.

photochallengethree 2

 various elements of each blossom interacting within as well as with the other blossoms

photochallengethree 3

 close up of an angel-wing begonia blossom

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*source:

The Mystery I’m Thankful for

Adam Frank

NPR, 12.22.2112

 

 

 

 

weekly photo challenge: window

In the aging house,

crookedness of the door being straightened,

a spring-like winter day.

            ~Buson*

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*cited:

Haiku Master Buson

Yuki Sawa & Edith Shiffert

weekly photo challenge: let there be light!

A full moon!

In the Sacred Fountain Garden

a fish is dancing

                   ~Buson*

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*cited in:

Haiku Master Buson

Yuki Sawa & Edith Shiffert