color photograph

sunday morning with Thich Nhat Hanh

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

skyscape’s twilight

When the swallows returned last year they made their nest in the embroidery room. They gathered clay from the flower-garden, and scattered dust over harp and books.

When the swallows returned this year, no one heard their twittering speech. She who had rolled up the screen for them was there no more… in the amber twilight a soft pattering rain.~Hsin Ch’i-chi*

Hammad Rais‘ Weekend Sky

*cited: Trans. Anonymous. The Jade Flute Chinese Poems in Prose. The Project Gutenberg Ebook of The Jade Flute.

sunday morning with amy tan

“…she must have seen herself recently in a mirror? But the way we see our reflections from changing angles allows us to edit out what we don’t like. The camera is a different sort of eye, one that sees a million present particles of silver on black, not the old memories of a person’s heart.”*

*cited: Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses, pp. 244-245.

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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

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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

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

friday with hakuni

To a melody of prayer

disappears the moon–

my place of rest. ~Hakuni*

*cited: Y Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems

One of a series of poppy images Cee’s fotd