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life’s passages … 86

How peaceful is

Every single dawn;

I gaze out, yet

Still in the depths of night

I dream…a grief, indeed.

~Princess Shokushi*

*cited: http://www.temcauley.staff.shef.ac.uk

an early morning with Etty

“…Woke up in the middle of the night. And suddenly remembered my important dream. A few minutes of intense effort to bring it back. Gluttonous. Greedy. Had the feeling that the dream was part of my personality, that I had the right to hang on to it, that I must not let it escape me, that I had to be certain of it if I am to be a rounded and whole person.*

Cee’s Photo Challenges: FOTD

*Trans, Arno Pomerans. An Interrupted Life. Lester & Oren Dennys Limited. 1983. pg.58

spring night dream

The floating bridge

of my spring night dream

has broken away

and lifting off a far peak –

a cloudbank trailing in the sky.

~Fujiwara no Teika (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)

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wpc: it is easy being green!

The first dream of the year –

I kept it a secret

and smiled to myself ~Sho-U

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It IS Easy Being Green!

dreaming

I can no longer tell dream from reality.

Into what world shall I awake

from this bewildering dream?

~Akazome Emon*

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*cited:

Women Poets of Japan

K Rexroth & I Atsumi

In the depths of night…I dream