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summer wishes

Going deep,

I enter the pathway

of the god –

where transcendent, above all

in the wind of the pines.

~Saigyo (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)

summerwishes

passing through

No grieving!

Our waking world, too,

is a spring dream.

~Oka Kosetsu (S Carter, Haiku Before Haiku)

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blossoms….

Overwhelming

my memory –

blossoms at dusk

~Shokaku (S Carter, Haiku Before Haiku)

springshohaku

idle thoughts

Color of the flower

Has already faded away,

While in idle thoughts

My life passes vainly by,

As I watch the long rains fall.

~Ono no Komachi

thursday’s special: vernal

just being alive

I

and the poppy

~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

poppiesthree

“We humans have talented artist, but how can our paintings compare to your masterpiece of the four seasons? How could we ever paint such a compelling dawn or create a more radiant dust? We have great composers, but how can our music compare to your celestial harmony with the Sun and planets-or to the sound of the rising tide? We have great heroes and heroines who have endured wars, hardship, and dangerous voyages, but how can their bravery compare to your great forbearance and patience…” ~Thich Nhat Hanh, Love Letter to the Earth

submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s photo challenge.

52 weeks photo challenge: week 33 – rain

spring rain-

all things on earth

becoming beautiful

~Chiyojo (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)

rain

spring rain…finally

wpc: reflecting

Even into the mind always clouded with grief,

There is cast the reflection of the bright moon.

~Lady Sarashina ( Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)

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wpc: danger!

air-raid sirens-

the last to turn off the lights

is a temple with blossoms

~ Sugita Hisajo (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)

wpc_danger

A photo that says…Danger!

how lonely….

on a tree standing

by the cliff in an old farm

a dove –

how lonely his voice

calling for a friend this evening ~Saigyo (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)

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52 weeks photo challenge: week 32 – shallow depth of field

butterflies, white

and yellow, on this day

of indecision ~ Inahata Teiko (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)

blossoms

image submitted in response to a challenge offered by The Girl Who Dreams Awake

thankful tears

May that lady live one thousand years who guards the flowers!

My sleeves are wet with thankful tears

As though I had been working

In a garden of dewy chrysanthemums.

~Murasaki Shikibu (Trans: A Omori & K Doi, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)

springrain

tuesday photo challenge: rgb

spring snow

revives the greenery

then goes

~Kawai Chigetsu (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)

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images submitted in response to the RGB challenge offered by dutch goes the photo