photography

after spring’s rain

I am a drop of dew

Hanging from a leaf

Yet, I am not unrestful

For on this branch I

seem to have existed

~Izumi Shikibu

photo friday: shades of gray

early morning mist

shades of gray

transformed in light ~bck

weekly photo challenge: in the background

the dolls I wanted

to put behind me,

but out of the house,

peach blossoms met me ~Ensui

In a new post created for this WordPress photo challenge, share a picture that says In the Background.

Weekly Photo Challenge: escape

Coming, all is clear, no doubt about it

Going, all is clear, without a doubt

What, then, is it all? ~ Hosshin*

A new post specifically created for this WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: escape

*source:

Japanese Death Poems

Yoel Hoffmann

weekly photo challenge: pattern

In a discussion with Carol Jung,

one of the members of the Lamaist convent of Bhutia Busty, Lingdam Gomchen,

noted, “no one mandala is the same as an another”:

all are different because each is a projected image of the psychic condition of its author…

the mandala is a synthesis of a traditional structure plus free interpretation.*

A new post specifically created for this WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: patterns

*A Dictionary of Symbols

J.E. Cirlot

Trans: Jack Sage

wordless wednesday XII

this abandoned house

Before I arrived,

who were the people living here?

Only violets remain. ~ Issa

—

This abandoned house

shining

in the mountain village –

how many winter nights

has the autumn moon spent here ~Ono No Komachi

why now?

“But why now?”

You will ask, awake

in autumn night. ~ Nishiyama Soin*

*cited in:

Haiku Before Haiku

Steven D Carter

wordless wednesday XI

weekly photo challenge: up

…and then I heard Mist whisper,

“Silence the chattering within your mind.

Up look up to the sky and witness the unseen and unnamed

as she urges me into one form and then another

in our journey across the morning sky.”

photo friday: pets

head pillowed on arm,

such affection for myself?

and this smoky moon

~Buson*

*cited in

The Sound of Water

Trans: Sam Hamill

fallen leaves

fallen to the ground

like those words of old –

glowing leaves

~ Inko