what do you understand?
an image –
the voice of aging
poetry
thursday’s special: pick a word
A puppet dancing
confined and restricted by strings –
a puppet master
confined
image submitted in response to a challenge offered by Lost in Translation
wpc: danger!
air-raid sirens-
the last to turn off the lights
is a temple with blossoms
~ Sugita Hisajo (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)
A photo that says…Danger!
how lonely….
on a tree standing
by the cliff in an old farm
a dove –
how lonely his voice
calling for a friend this evening ~Saigyo (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)
52 weeks photo challenge: week 32 – shallow depth of field
butterflies, white
and yellow, on this day
of indecision ~ Inahata Teiko (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)
image submitted in response to a challenge offered by The Girl Who Dreams Awake
thankful tears
May that lady live one thousand years who guards the flowers!
My sleeves are wet with thankful tears
As though I had been working
In a garden of dewy chrysanthemums.
~Murasaki Shikibu (Trans: A Omori & K Doi, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)
thursday’s special: section
wild geese –
between their cries, a slice
of silence
~Katsura Nobuko (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)
A slice of an image of blossoms at the city park…submitted in response to Paula’s photo challenge
tuesday photo challenge: rgb
spring snow
revives the greenery
then goes
~Kawai Chigetsu (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)
images submitted in response to the RGB challenge offered by dutch goes the photo
black and white sunday: after & before
Chasing a butterfly
Deep into the spring woods
I am lost ~Sugita Hisajo (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)
Submitted in response to a Lost in Translation challenge
a dandelion field
a dandelion
now and then interrupting
the butterfly’s dream
~Chiyojo (M. Ueda: Far Beyond the Field)
the wondrous earth…
parting dreams
this spring night
the floating bridge of dreams
broke off
parting with the mountaintop
low-lying clouds in the sky ~Teika
an uncertain weekend
Angry in the ultimate dimension
I close my eyes and look deeply
Three hundred years from now
Where will you be and where shall I be?
~Thich Nhat Hanh*
While Thich Nhat Hanh’s words are of anger, I believe they also apply to today’s uncertainty in that “…we are living in the most fear mongering time in human history. And the main reason for this is that there’s a lot of power and money available to individuals and organizations who can perpetrate these fears.”
…where fear is about danger that seems certain; anxiety is…”an experience of uncertainty.”
If there is a crack in human psychology into which demagogues wriggle, it is by offering psychological relief for the anxiety created by uncertainty…this is where a good scapegoat comes in; for example, There’ us — real Americans – then there are…”**
May equanimity fill the minds and hearts of all this holiday season and end this dangerous game of brinkmanship.
*cited: No Death, No Fear, Thich Nhat Hanh
**cited: Why We’re Living in the Age of Fear, Rolling Stone
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