b&w sunday: rhapsody in black & white

On my coming back,

how many pathways are there

through the spring grasses?

                                                   ~Buson*

tulips

An image submitted in response to Paula’s b&w sunday

*cited:

Haiku Master Buson

Y Sawa & E Shiffert

weekly photo challenge: future

As I walk about the campus at Colorado State University…my memories take me back to those days of hope…of expectation…of dreams…of a Future yet to be.  Today, a journey through past days.

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The Commons at CSU

 

weekly photo challenge: transition

The sprouting grass waiting for spring,
and the grass that begins to wither, were once the same
wild grass of the moor.
Sooner or later
they surely meet with autumn
and end in the season of weariness.

                                                                     ~Gio

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join in the fun of Jen’s photo challenge: Transition

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*

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Visit Cheri’s photo challenge to view additional images of: Trio

*cited:

Women Poets of Japan

K Rexroth & I Atsumi

black & white sunday: summertime

On the shins of thin legs

breezes touching the hairs —

time of summer clothes.

                                ~Buson*

summer's freedom

summer’s freedom

Visit Paula’s Lost in Translation for additional images of “summertime”

*cited:

Haiku Master Buson

Y Sawa & E Shiffert