poetry

weekly photo challenge: street life

The Road to Shu is Steep

…
The Road to Shu is steep, steep as climbing to the Sky!

It ashes those who only hear tell of it,
From its peaks to the sky can hardly be a foot:
The withers pines there have to lean over canyons
Filled with the contending dins of waterfalls,
Gullies thundering a thousand rolling stones!
Such perils, aye, as this,
Why, oh, why, Travellers from Afar, come ye to suffer them?
…
The Road to Shu is steep, steep as climbing to the Sky!
I have turn, but gaze West; with a long, long sigh!

                              ~Li Po*

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Interstate I 70

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Glenwood Springs Canyon

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Exiting the Eisenhower Tunnel

The streets of my childhood … the old Loveland, Monarch, Berthoud, and Rabbit Ear Passes which crisscross the majestic Rocky Mountains.

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*source:

Li Po and Tu Fu

Trans: Arthur Cooper

weekly photo challenge: reflection

Same Dream, Same Mirror 

We have dreamt the same dream

during many unraveling autumns;

one joy, one worry binds us.

…

We put on faces

before the same mirror:

our small flight of swallows

is secure.  We hear

inmortal music

on ancient bronze bells.

…

            ~Chen Yinke*

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The Rose is without Why

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*source:

Ancestral intelligence

Vera Schwarcz

 

weekly photo challenge: treasure

even an old man
has New Year’s eyes…
cherry blossoms

                             ~Issa*

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“The Virgin of the Rocks” Leonardo de Vinci, 1452-1519

Within the mind is a storehouse of memories that entered our psyche through the windows of our senses.  The treaures received through the gift of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell…these are what I have come to cherish as yearnings for possessions fade from desire.  What I yearn for now is to live a life filled with the creation of memories to visit and revisit again.

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weekly photo challenge: window

In the aging house,

crookedness of the door being straightened,

a spring-like winter day.

            ~Buson*

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*cited:

Haiku Master Buson

Yuki Sawa & Edith Shiffert

weekly photo challenge: joy

The child claps his hands

playing alone, happily

under a festive tree

                    ~Issa*

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*cited in:

The Spring of My Life

trans: Sam Hamill

weekly photo challenge: let there be light!

A full moon!

In the Sacred Fountain Garden

a fish is dancing

                   ~Buson*

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*cited in:

Haiku Master Buson

Yuki Sawa & Edith Shiffert

weekly photo challenge: layers

I raise the mirror of my life

Up to my face: sixty years.

With a s wing I smash the reflection–

The world as usual

All in its place.

                                      ~ Taigen Sofu*

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cited in:

Japanese Death Poems

complied by Yod Hoffmann

weekly photo challenge: eerie

for the cuckoo I wait

here in the capital beneath the vain skies of hoping ~Buson*

waiting....Toronto airport

waiting….Toronto airport

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*cited in:

The Classic Tradition of Haiku

Ed: Faubion Bowers