Having drifted apart,
Why should folk
Despise each other? For
Not known and unknowing
Times there were once before…
~The Monk Saigyo*
poppy
*cited:
drifted apart
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summer swinging
swinging on the swing
clutching
cherry blossoms
~Issa*
spring creek park
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weekly photo challenge: inspiration
just being alive
I
and the poppy
~Issa*
poppy
Christie’s photo challenge: Inspiration is an invitation to ponder, “what is it that moves me?”
Nature inspires me to contemplate the meaning and purpose of life through her
- beauty,
- complexity – simplicity continuum
- consistency
- characteristics of vulnerability intermixed with aggression (did you know poppies have thorns?)
- transience
- interdependency
- natural laws
- photogenic features
- haiku inspiration
*cited:
http://www.haikuguy.com
thursday’s special: gold inside
not shrinking back
from the sunset…
wildflowers
~Issa*
the golden glow of sunset…inspired by Lost in Translation
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sl-week 4: weird hollidays
If I was on holiday…it would be a walking tour of Japan and one of the places on my list to visit is the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove in Kyoto. But, alas, I’m not on holiday…but one of the bike/walking pathways near my home offered a (somewhat) miniature bamboo grove….sorta weird, but beautiful.
inspired by Sylvain Landry (who reports in on holliday)
flower-bringer
Over the long road
the flower-bringer follows:
plentiful moonlight
~Kikaku*
*cited:
The Sound of Water
S Hamill
black & white sunday
Of a mind to depart,
A bird his former nest
Will always find;
Accustomed to the blossoms
On this evening they are gone…
~The Monk Jakuren*
*cited:
blossoms in profusion
‘This all the same-
Blossoms in profusion
Everywhere;
And on every mountain’s edge
White clouds hang.
~The Monk En’i*
*cited:
on blossoms have I thought
At a loss,
To times gone past
My thoughts return;
Gloomily on blossoms have I thought,
This spring gone by.
~Princess Shokushi*
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Monochrome Madness: 2-20
Alongside the path
Fresh water flows, and
In the willow’s shade
Just for a little while
Would I take my ease…
~The Monk Saigyo*
petals
You are invited to tour Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness Galley
cited:
http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk
summer’s ghost
Brighter here,
paler there, the leaves
after scattered showers
~Senjun*
summer’s ghost
digital art photographs for sale
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Haiku before Haiku
S Carter
every single trace has gone
But rarely
Did he visit-now
‘Tis all in the past, and
Since then in the garden
Every single trace has gone.
~Monk-Prince Shukaku*
iris
*cited:
a meditative journey 
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