The stars pass.
The moon passes.
Blue clouds pass above the mountains to the north.
The years go by.
~Empress Jito*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
Trans: K Rexroth & I Atsumi
poetry
100 days…65th day
The colors of the flowers fade
as the long rain fall,
as lost in thought,
I grow older.
~Ono no Komachi*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
Trans: K Rexroth & I Atsumi
100 days…64th day
I can no longer tell dream from reality.
Into what world shall I awake
from this bewildering dream?
~Akazome Emon*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
Trans: K Rexroth & I Atsumi
100 days…63rd day
In the mountain shade,
water in the moss
drips between rocks.
I feel a glimmer
of clarity.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
100 days…62nd day
Only today left
of spring. My walking
ended it.
~Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Trans: Y Sawa & E Shiffert
100 days…61st day
On a mountain slope
Solitary, uncompanioned
Stands a cherry tree.
Except for you, lonely friend,
To others I am unknown.
~Abbot Gyoson*
*cited:
100 days…60th day
Spring is going;
hesitating and indecisive,
the last cherry blossom
~Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Trans: Y Sawa & E Shiffert
weekly photo challenge: curve
If anyone
is going to my hometown,
send a message that
I have passed
Omi Province.
~Ryokan*
submitted in response to Cheri’s photo challenge “…get inspired by the curves around you…”
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
100 days…59th day
Does that bird
think of past times
as it flies, singing
over the shade in the spring…
of weeping willows?
100 days…58th day
Within but a single night
The cherry blossoms vanish
And are completely gone
~Issa*
*cited:
100 day…57th day
In the peaceful light
Of the ever-shining sun
In the days of spring,
Why do the cherry’s new-blown blooms
Scatter like restless thoughts
~Ki no Tomonori*
cited:
100 days…56th day
As I view the moon,
Many thoughts come into my mind,
And my rememberings are sad
Yet, it is not for me alone,
That this spring has come.
a meditative journey 
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