If anyone
is going to my hometown,
send a message that
I have passed
Omi Province.
~Ryokan*

submitted in response to Cheri’s photo challenge “…get inspired by the curves around you…”
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
If anyone
is going to my hometown,
send a message that
I have passed
Omi Province.
~Ryokan*

submitted in response to Cheri’s photo challenge “…get inspired by the curves around you…”
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
Does that bird
think of past times
as it flies, singing
over the shade in the spring…
of weeping willows?

Within but a single night
The cherry blossoms vanish
And are completely gone
~Issa*

*cited:
In the peaceful light
Of the ever-shining sun
In the days of spring,
Why do the cherry’s new-blown blooms
Scatter like restless thoughts
~Ki no Tomonori*

cited:
As I view the moon,
Many thoughts come into my mind,
And my rememberings are sad
Yet, it is not for me alone,
That this spring has come.

Color of the flower
Has already faded away,
While in idle thoughts
My life passes vainly by,
As I watch the long rains fall
~Ono no Komachi*

*cited:
making the lawn
a sit-down tea house…
summer trees.
~Issa*

submitted in response to Lost In Translation’s black and white photo challenge
*cited:
I don’t regard my life Continue reading
Jen’s photo challenge for this week is to “share a photo of something pure…Pure can convey wholesomeness, something undiluted, or simplicity.”
The fireflies light
How easily it goes on
How easily it goes out again
~Chine-Jo

Sunset
The path is hidden
by Dharma,
invisible,
but memories of you
lead me onward

We meet and we part,
Coming and going hearts like passing clouds
…
~Ryokan*

Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Takahashi
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