“…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
I understand
a dew drop fades
today at dawn
image submitted for Cee’s (fotd) flower of the day challenge
into a cold night
I spoke aloud
but the voice was
no voice I knew.
~ Otsuji
Image submitted in response to Cee’s flower of the day (FOTD) challenge.
Color of the flower
Has already faded away,
While in idle thoughts
My life passes vainly by,
As I watch the long rains fall. ~ Ono no Komachi
Image submitted in response to Cee’s flower of the day (FOTD) challenge.
I cast the brush aside
from here on I’ll speak to the moon
face to face ~Koha
Nikon D750 …f/5.6 1/500s 85mm 800 ISO i
Image submitted in response to Cee’s flower of the day (FOTD) challenge
With the air of a century past
The fallen leaves on the garden ~Basho
autumn resting … Cee’s flower of the day
Rapidly tonight my boat floats down the river under a cloud-dappled sky. I look into the water; it is as clear as the night. When clouds float past the moon, I seem them floating in the river, and feel I am rowing in the sky.
I think of my love … mirrored so in my heart. ~Tu Fu*
sun-tipped blossom submitted in response to Cee’s flower of the day photo challenge
*cited: The Jude Flute Gutenberg.org
waiting for autumn…
Compared to last year,
this has even more loneliness —
autumn evening ~Buson (Haiku Master Buson, Trans: Y Sawa & E Shiffert)
Leaves submitted in response to Cee’s flower of the day photo challenge
image submitted in response to Cee’s flower of the day
Thank you Cee for the invitation to open one’s eyes to nature’s beauty
Thank you Cee for the invitation to share the beauty of blossoms.
a meditative journey 
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