macro monochrome
sunday morning with Amy Tan
“She holds up the cage with the owl. ‘But now I have a beautiful cat-eagle that can carry with him my new wish. When he flies away, all my old sadnesses will go with him. Then both of us will be free.'”~Amy Tan*
*cited: Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses.
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Twilight watering…
and please,
a cooling sprinkle
for wrens and crickets ~Kikaku*
Hammad Rais’ Weekend Sky
*cited: The Eternal Grasshopper
cmmc – close up
At night in my sleep
embraces the summer shadows
of my life. ~Oto*
Cee’s August’s cmmc: close up or macro
*cited: Y Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems
thursday morning with Sho-u
the first dream of the year —
I kept it a secret
and smiled to myself ~Sho-u
wordless wednesday – 8.2.23
a visitor
The whole world is you,
yet you keep thinking
there is something else.~Hsueh Feng
sunday morning with rilke
“And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact there is something in you that wants to break out of it.”
~Trans: M. D. Heater Norton (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet)
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An Elder Dragon
is a tiny Dragon
who never gave up.~James Norbury (Big Panda and Tiny Dragon)
Hammad Rais’ Weekend Sky
friday with hakuni
To a melody of prayer
disappears the moon–
my place of rest. ~Hakuni*
*cited: Y Hoffmann, Japanese Death Poems
One of a series of poppy images Cee’s fotd
wordless wednesday – 7.26.23
jumbling buds … fotd
poppy buds … sleeping … waiting for their awakening.
a meditative journey 
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