my hut
the butterfly’s sleeping place
tonight ~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)
Sunlight, shadows, and Spring Creek’s current reflected on the wall of an underpass. I hope you enjoy.
lens-artists photo challenge: buildings and other structures
green moss–
all the way to my lap
spring’s rainbow ~Issa*
*www.haikuguy.com noted. A love note to Planet Earth. Spring’s dazzling colors touch and include Issa. He gazes and realizes: I am (we are) part of this glory!
the lantern blown out–
the sound of the wind
through the leaves ~Shiki*
*cited: Jackie Hardy, Haiku Poetry Ancients & Modern. Tuttle Publishing, 2022
even in the spring mists
the sounds of water
trailing through the rocks ~ Sokan*
*Hardy, Jackie. Haiku Poetry Ancient & Modern. Tuttle Publishing 2002
Across concealed blue skies,
drifting signs.
Imaginary birds and dragons –
aimless shifting stories.
Gathering and dispersing
water droplets and star dust.
In flight,
clouds empty of clouds
trails of clouds
layered memories
a time forever gone
stands between us
dewdrops of autumn
reeds–
a flitting firefly
catches his breath ~Issa (haikuguy.com)
resigning himself
to this oceanless province…
pond snail ~Issa (haikuguy.com)
among the dewdrops
the butterfly’s mood
improves ~Issa (haikuguy.com)
Out of the dark,
Into a dark path
I now must enter:
Shine [on me] from afar
Moon of the mountain fringe ~Izumi Shikibu
Leica V-Lux 5 … f/3.8 . 1/400s . 32.65 mm
Throughout the frosty night
I lay awake. When morning bells
rang out, my heart grew clear–
upon this fleeting dream-world
dawn is waking.
~Hasegawa Shume*
Leica D-Lux7: f/1.7 . 1/2500s . 11/1mm
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Yoel Hoffmann
Year by year, season by season, day by day
quietly in the memories of children. . .dandelions.
Drifting in peaceful slumber . . .
tiny whispered wishes, two or three.
Edited post, Tiny Whispered Wishes, 4 September 2017.
Sending on ahead
My contemplated image of the form
Of remembered cherry flowers,
How many ranges have I vainly crossed
Taking for blossoms white clouds upon the peaks? ~Shunzei, Chūshū Eisô*
*Edited by: Miner, Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry, 110
There may be another with thoughts like mine,
Who is gazing toward the sky of the morning moon.
~Izumi Shikibu (The Diary of Izumi Shikibu, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)
Fujifilm X-T4: f/4 . 1/1000s . 67mm . 1250 ISO
a meditative journey 
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