floating

This body

grown fragile, floating,

a reed cut from its roots…

If a stream would ask me

to follow, I’d go, I think.

                               ~Ono No Komachi*

Horsetooth Reservoir

Horsetooth Reservoir

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The Ink Dark Moon

J Hirshfield & M Aratani

weekly photo challenge: shadowed

We meet and we part.

Coming and going–hearts like passing clouds.

Except for the marks of a frosty-hair brush,

human traces are hard to find.

                                                                 ~Ryokan*

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visit The Daily Post to view or participate in Jen’s photo challenge: shadowed

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Sky Above, Great Wind

Kazuaki Tanahashi