“But why now?”
You will ask, awake
in autumn night. ~ Nishiyama Soin*
*cited in:
Haiku Before Haiku
Steven D Carter
spirituality
weekly photo challenge: up
…and then I heard Mist whisper,
“Silence the chattering within your mind.
Up look up to the sky and witness the unseen and unnamed
as she urges me into one form and then another
in our journey across the morning sky.”
fallen leaves
fallen to the ground
like those words of old –
glowing leaves
~ Inko
*cited in:
Haiku Before Haiku
Steven D Carter
frog ages…observes
In an old pond
a frog ages
while leaves fall ~ Buson*
squatting
the frog observes
the clouds ~ Chiyo*
*The Classic Tradition of Haiku
Ed. Faubion Bowers
macro monday II
The remarkable thing about deja vu, or other vivid experiences of recollection, is that they are vested with significance that we cannot put into words. At an earlier time, whatever happened might have seem important, or it might not. But the recollection is charged with relevance, and tears flow for no reason.
~R. Aitkens
a street in Dublin
May I find the Wisdom that silences the fortress of my mind’s discontent
so I may hear with understanding
teachings absent of greed, anger, and ignorance.
the deep desire to move on almost always robs us of our life… But quite often what is most healing in our relationships…arises out of the bedrock of being with things just as they are… When we step inside and wait, the right action…makes itself known. *
*source:
Heal Thy Self
Saki Santorelli
weekly photo challenge: change
In a new WordPress post created for this week’s challenge, share a picture that says CHANGE
one strand of hair
entangled in a hairbrush
a telling – of age
The Brook
First time I passed the brook
it filled my eye.
The second time
it was a tiny snake.
The next few times
I only heard it cry
Behind me – I was afraid
for my own sake. ~G Burce Bunao
photo friday: natural light
In branches dense
with cicadas’ drone —
one autumn leaf ~Shohaku
cees fun foto challenge: road
This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge is all about Road of any type as long as the road is visible … streets of Dublin, Ireland
On, on I travel
Though I fall and die, let it be
In fields of clover ~Sora*
Along this road
going with no one
autumn evening ~Basho
Shinano road —
how many nights now
that moon on the eves? ~Issa
*cited in:
The Narrow Road to Oku
Matsuo Basho
Trans: Donald Keene
paths of existence
A short night
wakes me from a dream
that seemed so long ~Yayo
My personal musings escort me along paths of existence that often are, for others, unknown dimensions of imaginative conclusions
macro monday I
More haze
than the sky could hold?
Today’s rain ~ Oka Kosetsu*
cited in:
Haiku Before Haiku
trans: Steven D. Carter
photo friday: at rest
Being great, it flows.
It flows far away.
Having gone far, it returns.*
cited in:
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tsu
Trans: Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English
a meditative journey 
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