wpc: danger!

air-raid sirens-

the last to turn off the lights

is a temple with blossoms

~ Sugita Hisajo (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)

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A photo that says…Danger!

how lonely….

on a tree standing

by the cliff in an old farm

a dove –

how lonely his voice

calling for a friend this evening ~Saigyo (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)

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52 weeks photo challenge: week 32 – shallow depth of field

butterflies, white

and yellow, on this day

of indecision ~ Inahata Teiko (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)

blossoms

image submitted in response to a challenge offered by The Girl Who Dreams Awake

thankful tears

May that lady live one thousand years who guards the flowers!

My sleeves are wet with thankful tears

As though I had been working

In a garden of dewy chrysanthemums.

~Murasaki Shikibu (Trans: A Omori & K Doi, Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)

springrain

thursday’s special: section

wild geese –

between their cries, a slice

of silence

~Katsura Nobuko (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)

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A slice of an image of blossoms at the city park…submitted in response to Paula’s photo challenge

spring rain

“What is the cause of everything? …everything relies on everything else in order to manifest. A flower has to rely on non-flower elements in order to manifest. If you look deeply into the flower, you can recognize non-flower elements. Looking into the flower, you recognize the element sunshine; that is a non-flower element. Without sunshine, a flower cannot manifest. Looking at the flower, you recognize the element cloud; that is a non-flower element. Without clouds, the flower cannot manifest. Other elements are essential, such as minerals, soil, the farmer and so on; a multitude of non-flower elects has come together in order to help the flower manifest.”

~Thich Nhat Hanh, No Fear, No Death

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wpc: wanderlust

those with wings have no roots

those with roots cannot fly

Wanderlust…traveling through time

while wandering about

the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada

tuesday photo challenge: rgb

spring snow

revives the greenery

then goes

~Kawai Chigetsu (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)

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images submitted in response to the RGB challenge offered by dutch goes the photo

looking deeply into a flower

springblossoms “Nothing can exist by itself alone. It has to depend on every other thing. That is called inter-being. … Looking deeply into a flower, we see that the flower is made of non-flower elements. We can describe the flower as being full of everything. There is nothing that is not present in the flower. We see sunshine, we see the rain, we see clouds, we see the earth, and we also see time and space in the flower. A flower, like everything else, is made entirely of non-flower elements. The whole cosmos has come together in order to help the flower manifest itself. The flower is full of everything except one thing: a separate self, a separate identity.” (Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear, pp 47-48)