photo challenges

weekly photo challenge: saturated

“I’ve waited for you

for a long time” – for your song,

my mountain cuckoo   ~Issa*

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This week, show us a photo of whatever you’d like, but make sure it’s saturated. It can be black and white, a single color, a few hues, or a complete rainbow riot; just make sure it’s rich and powerful. Let’s turn the comments into an instant mood-booster!

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 *cited in:

The Spring of my Life

Trans: Sam Hamill

weekly photo challenge: inside

Between the slats

of the window

a tiny hand held out

to feel spring rain ~ Torai*

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Since it has now been three days of gray skies, drizzling rain, and no wind, inside is an appropriate description of life within Wyoming.  While the focus is upon the rain drop, inside the image is a not quite ripe plum.

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*cited in:

The Year of My Life

Trans: Nobuyuki Yuasa

weekly photo challenge: an unusual POV

only a memory

our neighbor’s tasty rice cakes

at our gate as before ~Issa*

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*cited:

The Spring of my Life

Trans: Sam Hamill

 

 

 

weekly photo challenge: one shot, two ways

the wonder of

flowers opening

and birds singing:

prayers!

ka ya hiraki / nori toku tori no / kirabiyaka ~Gozan (1695-1733)*

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*This haikai trickery, a palindrome, reads the same forward and backward in kana (the Japanese alphabet)

 source: The Classic Tradition of haiku

Ed: Faubion Bowers