I am a drop of dew
Hanging from a leaf
Yet, I am not unrestful
For on this branch I
seem to have existed
~Izumi Shikibu
art
weekly photo challenge: in the background
the dolls I wanted
to put behind me,
but out of the house,
peach blossoms met me ~Ensui
In a new post created for this WordPress photo challenge, share a picture that says In the Background.
weekly photo challenge: pattern
In a discussion with Carol Jung,
one of the members of the Lamaist convent of Bhutia Busty, Lingdam Gomchen,
noted, “no one mandala is the same as an another”:
all are different because each is a projected image of the psychic condition of its author…
the mandala is a synthesis of a traditional structure plus free interpretation.*
A new post specifically created for this WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: patterns
*A Dictionary of Symbols
J.E. Cirlot
Trans: Jack Sage
why now?
“But why now?”
You will ask, awake
in autumn night. ~ Nishiyama Soin*
*cited in:
Haiku Before Haiku
Steven D Carter
weekly photo challenge: up
…and then I heard Mist whisper,
“Silence the chattering within your mind.
Up look up to the sky and witness the unseen and unnamed
as she urges me into one form and then another
in our journey across the morning sky.”
photo friday: pets
head pillowed on arm,
such affection for myself?
and this smoky moon
~Buson*
*cited in
The Sound of Water
Trans: Sam Hamill
fallen leaves
fallen to the ground
like those words of old –
glowing leaves
~ Inko
*cited in:
Haiku Before Haiku
Steven D Carter
frog ages…observes
In an old pond
a frog ages
while leaves fall ~ Buson*
squatting
the frog observes
the clouds ~ Chiyo*
*The Classic Tradition of Haiku
Ed. Faubion Bowers
weekly photo challenge: change
In a new WordPress post created for this week’s challenge, share a picture that says CHANGE
one strand of hair
entangled in a hairbrush
a telling – of age
The Brook
First time I passed the brook
it filled my eye.
The second time
it was a tiny snake.
The next few times
I only heard it cry
Behind me – I was afraid
for my own sake. ~G Burce Bunao
photo friday: natural light
In branches dense
with cicadas’ drone —
one autumn leaf ~Shohaku
cees fun foto challenge: road
This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is all about Road of any type as long as the road is visible … streets of Dublin, Ireland
On, on I travel
Though I fall and die, let it be
In fields of clover ~Sora*
Along this road
going with no one
autumn evening ~Basho
Shinano road —
how many nights now
that moon on the eves? ~Issa
*cited in:
The Narrow Road to Oku
Matsuo Basho
Trans: Donald Keene
paths of existence
A short night
wakes me from a dream
that seemed so long ~Yayo
My personal musings escort me along paths of existence that often are, for others, unknown dimensions of imaginative conclusions
a meditative journey 
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