looking, looking
at the mandarin orange…
year’s first calligraphy
~Issa*
tangelos
expresso
Join Michelle’s challenge: Orange you glad it’s photo challenge time?
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weekly photo challenge: Orange you glad it’s photo challenge time?
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photo 101: solitude & rule of thirds
foot prints in the snow
photo 101: bliss
may I find the equanimity
that will ease the darkness
of envious resentment
so that the rays of enlightenment will
fill my world with the loving-kindness of bliss
sunbeams
photo101: water
A half-frozen lake and an empty pier…silently waiting for summer
photo 101: street
A street image composed with Campbell’s Tomato Soup (soup is a comfort food, especially when it is snowing) in the foreground with the street, cars, and trees forming the background.
photo 101: home
home…a sanctuary for dreams, hopes, memories, loved ones, and cherished life-treasures.
won’t you sing?
Won’t you sing?
I will get up and dance.
How can I sleep
with the timeless
moon this evening?
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K. Tanahashi
weekly photo challenge: reward
Take care now;
I am going for
takuhatsu.
You stay in this
borrowed hut.
~Ryokan*
Join Krista’s Reward photo challenge!
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Sky Above, Great Wind
K. Tanahashi
men gather in harmony…
There is a peaceful little community
in a place of burned up hopes,
beside the track of dreams
that drifted away,
on the edge of a village
where crowds pass by.
There, men gather in harmony
to graze like sheep and fawns.
On all the beautiful flowers
a sun comes and goes
through the clouds in freedom.
~Mitsui Futabako*
*cited:
The Burning Heart
K Rexroth & I Atsumi
watched you without a sound
The leaves of the bush clover rustle in the wind
I, not a leaf,
watched you without a sound.
You may have thought I paid no attention.
~Kenrei Mon-in Ukyo No Daibu*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
K Rexroth & I Atsumi
on the road…
on the road through the clouds
is there a short cut
to the summer moon?
~Den Sute-Jo*
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Women Poets of Japan
K. Rexroth & I. Atsumi
Karma of past lives
I was sure I would never get lost
in the tangled roads of love,
Now I have been caught
in the karma of past lives.
~Kenrei Mon-in Ukyo No Daibu*
*cited:
The Burning Heart
Trans & Ed, K Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi
a meditative journey 
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