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
dawn
poetry
tiny whispered wishes
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.
seeking spring’s arrival
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
morning’s monochrome
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
yearning for the green of spring
. . . The caged bird longs for the fluttering of high leaves.
The fish in the garden pool languishes for the whirled water
Of meeting streams.
. . . ~T’ao Yuan-ming – AD 365–427 – (Once More Fields and Gardens)*
Leica D-Lux 7: f/2.8 . 1/125 . 34 mm
*Trans: Florence Ayscough & Amy Lowell: The Project Gutenberg eBook of Fir-Flower Tablets
in a dark time
In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood— . . . ~Theodore Roethke, In a Dark Time
Fujifilme X-T4: f/4 . 1/1000s . 16mm
a walk about with Fujifilm
this aged soul wonders,
as you wander through my dreams,
would I be in yours?
Fujifilm X-T4: f/16 . 1/1000 s . 80 mm . -1.7 ev . 640 ISO
ink-dawn
sunrise silhouette
in the sky – leafless branches
an ink-dawn drawing
blogjanuary – 01/01/23
January 1. 2023: What is something you want to achieve this year?
to mindfully embrace impermanence
dragonfly, I and …
wandering clouds at pond’s shore
our impermanence
A Cloud Never Dies by Thich Nhat Hanh
solitude
The traveler goes on,
His sleeves blowing back and forth
With the autumn wind,
And the evening sun sheds lonely light
Upon the bridge suspended between the cliffs.
–Miner, Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry, 115
fotd
I understand
a dew drop fades
today at dawn
image submitted for Cee’s (fotd) flower of the day challenge
morning’s light
the night I understood
this is a world of dew
I woke up from my sleep ~Retsuzan
Fujifilm XT4 … f4 1/250s 79mm 1600 ISO
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