clouds

weekly photo challenge: up

…and then I heard Mist whisper,

“Silence the chattering within your mind.

Up look up to the sky and witness the unseen and unnamed

as she urges me into one form and then another

in our journey across the morning sky.”

In an old pond

a frog ages

while leaves fall ~ Buson*

squatting

the frog observes

the clouds ~ Chiyo*

*The Classic Tradition of Haiku

Ed. Faubion Bowers

with each lightening flash,

each roll of thunder, rice and

the world grow richer

—

seen in a flash

of lightening, the riverbed

looks utterly dead*

wyoming sky

*cited in:

The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku Kobayashi Issa,

trans: Sam Hamill