mountain moon–
father pulls the bell rope
his child prays*
~ Issa
*cited: http: haikuguy.com
Sweet and sad
like love overwhelmed
with long sighs,
out of the depths of the willow
little by little
the moon appears ~Yosano Akiko

moon and venus conjunction

images submitted in response to egidio.photography lens-artists challenge: warm colors
At night my sleep
embraces the summer shadows
of my life. ~Oto*

*cited: Y Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems
as night transitions to day…
softly, softly
a lucky day dawns…
one leaf falls ~Issa (haikuguy.com)

Now I see her face,
the old woman, abandoned,
the moon her only companion ~Basho*

*cited: Trans. Sam Hamill, The Sound of Water
blossoming mountain–
the little food shop
lost in mist ~issa*

*cited: haikuguy.com
Spring has its hundred colors,
Autumn its moon,
Summer has its cooling breezes,
Winter its snow.

If you allow no idle concerns
to weight on your heart,
Your whole life will be one
Perennial good season.*
*cited: The Golden Age of Zen, p. 286
Purple butterflies
Fly at night through my dreams.
Butterflies, tell me,
have you seen in my village
the falling flowers of the wisteria? ~Yosano Akiko*

*cited: K Rexroth and Ikuko Atsumi
Empty mountain, no man is seen.
Only heard are echoes of men’s talk.
Reflected light enters the deep wood
And shines again on blue-green moss. ~Wang Wei*

*cited: Rafal Stepien, Jestor Daily Vol.16, No.2 (2014)
“… I realized it wasn’t the answers I was seeking all those years that mattered as much as the act of seeing itself. It was incredible, this human capacity for learning, for hope, for love, that persisted like the box of light in my cell, the waters that flowed in my dream. It was beyond my understanding. Tears came as I surrendered to this wonderment of being.”*

*cited: Eugenia Kim, The Calligrapher’s Daughter.
delightful, the view
from the gate in the long night…
all four directions ~Issa*

*cited: haikuguy.com
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