Listening’ to Noontime Tunes
Watching’ children at play
the observers
monochrome photography
a skateboard break
Lumix f/6.3 1/200s 32mm 200 ISO
100 days…88th day
Shadows from a lingering sun
fade into dark –
falling cherry petals
~Soko*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
developing your eye I: solitude
My abode is
in winter seclusion
on this white mountain in Echigo.
No trace of humans
coming or going.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K Tanahashi
100 days…58th day
Within but a single night
The cherry blossoms vanish
And are completely gone
~Issa*
*cited:
100 days…46th day
Gloriously
Shines the spring sun
A skylark soars
And sad am I,
Alone with my thoughts
~Man’yoshu*
*cited:
100 days…42nd day
Grasses in a mist
and water flowing silently,
daylight fading
~Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Trans: Y Sawa & E Shiffert
black and white sunday: timeless
The depth of the hearts
Of humankind cannot be known.
But in my birthplace
The plum blossoms smell the same
As in the years gone by.
~Ki no Tsurayuki*
image submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s b&w challenge: timeless
*cited:
weekly photo challenge: trio
Last autumn
The three of us tossed acorns
To the scattering carp.
Now in the cold morning wind off the pond
He and I stand hand in chilling hand.
~Yosano Akiko*
Visit Cheri’s photo challenge to view additional images of: Trio
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
K Rexroth & I Atsumi
hot summer days
these hot summer days
continue…but how far away
those days called Long Ago
sweet peas
every single trace has gone
But rarely
Did he visit-now
‘Tis all in the past, and
Since then in the garden
Every single trace has gone.
~Monk-Prince Shukaku*
iris
*cited:
monochrome madness: 2-19
how cool it is!
in summer, beneath trees
as if in flower.
~Takayama Sozei*
You are invited to visit Monochrome Madness
*cited:
Haiku before Haiku
Trans: S Carter
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