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solitary evergreen

I can no longer tell dream from reality.

Into what world shall I awake

from this bewildering dream?

                                 ~Akazome Emon (?-1027)*

solitary evergreen

solitary evergreen

*cited:

Women Poets of Japan

K Rexroth & I Atsumi

floating

This body

grown fragile, floating,

a reed cut from its roots…

If a stream would ask me

to follow, I’d go, I think.

                               ~Ono No Komachi*

Horsetooth Reservoir

Horsetooth Reservoir

*cited:

The Ink Dark Moon

J Hirshfield & M Aratani

in its own true nature

A fish cannot drown in water,

A bird does not fall in air.

In the fire of its making,

Gold doesn’t vanish:

The fire brightens.

Each creature God made

Must live in its own true nature;

How could I resist my nature, 

That lives for oneness with God.

                                     ~Mechtild of Magdeburg*

spring creek trail
blossoms
spring creek
spring
transition

*cited:

Women in Praise of the Sacred

J Hirshfield

weekly photo challenge: ephemeral

Although the wind

blows terribly here,

the moonlight also leaks

between the roof planks

of this ruined house.

                               ~Izumi Shikibu*

light prints

light prints upon the floor

Krista’s photo challenge for this week is  Ephemeral

*cited:

The Ink Dark Moon

J. Hirshfield & M Aratani

photo 101: hone your eye

Come out to view

the truth of flowers blooming

in poverty.

                ~Basho*

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Revisiting themes during Photo 101’s weekend three as suggested by Cheri and the WordPress.com Team

*cited:

The Sound of Water

Sam Hamill