Spring departs –
the clear moon oblivious
of passing time
~Soseki (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)
this image of a dandelion is submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s photo challenge.
poetry
summer wishes
Going deep,
I enter the pathway
of the god –
where transcendent, above all
in the wind of the pines.
~Saigyo (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)
wpc: evanescent
scattered
Unable to sleep,
I gaze at the flowers of the bush clover,
as the dew forms on them from the long night,
till suddenly before dawn
they are scattered by the wind.
~Ise Tayu (K Rexroth & I Atsumi, The Burning Heart)
black & white sunday: music
singing insects, too
make music
in this world
~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)
I love being drawn by the music that fills the air as one wanders about town on a Sunday afternoon. Image submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s Sunday photo challenge.
lost in thought
The colors of the flowers fade
as the long rains fall,
as lost in thought,
I grow older
~Ono No Komachi (K Rexroth & I Atsumi, The Burning Heart)
spring night dream
The floating bridge
of my spring night dream
has broken away
and lifting off a far peak –
a cloudbank trailing in the sky.
~Fujiwara no Teika (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)
spring snow
an early spring –
sent back into seclusion
by morning snow
~Socho (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)
serene
For a heart serene
there is no scattering
of blossoms.
~Satomura Joha (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)
passing through
No grieving!
Our waking world, too,
is a spring dream.
~Oka Kosetsu (S Carter, Haiku Before Haiku)
blossoms….
Overwhelming
my memory –
blossoms at dusk
~Shokaku (S Carter, Haiku Before Haiku)
idle thoughts
Color of the flower
Has already faded away,
While in idle thoughts
My life passes vainly by,
As I watch the long rains fall.
~Ono no Komachi
a meditative journey 
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