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
100 days…59th day
Does that bird
think of past times
as it flies, singing
over the shade in the spring…
of weeping willows?
100 days…58th day
Within but a single night
The cherry blossoms vanish
And are completely gone
~Issa*
*cited:
100 day…57th day
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:
100 days…56th day
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.
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100 days…55th day
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:
black & white sunday: diagonals
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:
100 days…54th day
I don’t regard my life Continue reading
weekly photo challenge: pure
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
100 days…53rd day
The path is hidden
by Dharma,
invisible,
but memories of you
lead me onward
100 days…52nd day
We meet and we part,
Coming and going hearts like passing clouds
…
~Ryokan*
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Takahashi
a meditative journey 
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