dandelion

anxiety’s blindness

…

Every day my anxiety grew deeper,

until it enveloped me so thickly

that I could see nothing.

Alone in an illimitable desert

I wept hopelessly, as if in a nightmare in dawn

where the open mouth blue sky wept with me.

…

~Nakamura Chio*

beauty

my gift to you today…awakening seeds of calmness… right diligence

*cited:

Women Poets of Japan

K Rexroth &  I Atsumi

thursday’s special: pick a word

Together with my Roget’s International Thesaurus, I selected these following images for September’s “pick a word” challenge…

can a journal be populated with words?  can words inhabit a journal?

populated

nature, by her very nature is time sensitive

timesensitive

words and letters are often very companionable

companionable

love these burgeoning plants that grow alongside  a local trail

burgeoning

clandestine…walking through an alleyway wondering what is hidden behind those locked gates

clandestine

Hopefully I will be forgiven for only including one color image for this Lost in Translation’s photo challenge.

universe in a grain

The beginning of the sustenance of life

Is all in yin and yang.

The limitless can open up

The light of the great limit.

Diligently polished, the mirror of mind

Is bright as the moon;

The universe in a grain

May rise, or it may hide.

                                                   ~Sun Bu-er*

universeinagrain

*cited:

Immortal Sisters

Trans & Ed T. Cleary