every evening
not growing older…
blooming bush clover
~Issa*
*cited
poetry
monochrome Monday
She is like the Moon, who, opening the gate of Heaven,
goes up over the clouds.
We, being in the same heavenly Palace, pass the night
in remembering the footfalls of the past. ~unknown
life passages … 27
Silently
time passes.
The only life I have
submits to its power. ~Hatsui Shizue*
*cited: Trans: K Rexroth and I Atsumi, The Burning Heart
life’s passages …25
Blow if you will,
fall winds–the flowers
have all faded. ~Gansan*
*cited: Yoel Hoffman, Japanese Death Pomes
life’s passages … 24
At night my sleep
embraces the summer shadows
of my life. ~Oto*
*cited: Y Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems
lens-artists … day & night
as night transitions to day…
softly, softly
a lucky day dawns…
one leaf falls ~Issa (haikuguy.com)
monochrome monday
Fire Fly
Rainstorms could do little
To dim your light,
And the winds
But make your lantern
All the brighter glow.
If you should wing your flight
Up near the moon,
I am sure you would twinkle
As a star.~Li Po [701–762]
life’s passages … 21
Listen, listen
longing and loss.
In the struck bell’s
recurrent calling,
no moment in which to forget.
~Izumi Shikibu (J Hirsfield & M Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon)
Nikon D750 f/2/2 1/800 s 35 mm ISO 100
life’s passages … 19
the servant’s hair
made white by migrating…
this year too ~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)
.
life’s passages … 18
My old body:
a drop of dew grown
heavy at the leaf tip.
~Kiba
Life’s passages … 17
life’s passages … 16
Today, today too,
somehow getting by these days, still
living in a haze.
~Issa*
*cited:
The Springtime of My Life
S Hamill
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