walking squares (10)

If I could do as I wish 
I could acknowledge more profoundly 
~ The Sarashina Diary (1009-1059) *


*Translated: The sorrow of departing in Autumn. There are a thousand kinds of flowers in the autumn fields, so there are a thousand reasons for going to the fields.

Cited: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

Images submitted in response to Becky’s (The Life of B) walking squares.

Lens-artist: colors of autumn

The autumn wind

more white

than the rocks in the rocky mountains ~Basho

Oh leaves, ask the wind which of you

Will be the first to fall. ~Soseki

Along this road

Is none but I

This autumn eve. ~ Basho

in branches dense

with cicadas’ drone —

one autumn leaf ~Shohaku

“But why now?”

You will ask, awake

in autumn night. ~ Nishiyama Soin*

Images of past autumns with autumn haiku submitted for this week’s Lens-Artists photo challenge: colors of autumn