carving aged faces
sunset by sunset – whitening streaked hair
days of yesterdays
life’s passages … 89
landscape photography
life’s passages … 76
A song out there… Why, it is a beggar singing! If this old man who never had a silver coin can sing, why must you with rich gold memories sit here and sigh?
~Tu Fu (cited: The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose, gutenberg.org)
life’s passages … 47
Today, I like the word Wintering (the act of staying at a place throughout the winter) as it has an underlying message of being at…rest, peace. A seasonal nap time.
February has within it whispers of spring, It also–like November–is a time of heavy snow storms and cabin fever.
life passages … 27
Silently
time passes.
The only life I have
submits to its power. ~Hatsui Shizue*
*cited: Trans: K Rexroth and I Atsumi, The Burning Heart
sunday morning with big panda and tiny dragon
“Are you ever mean to yourself, Big Panda?”
Big Panda watched the ripples spread across the lake.
“I see how gentle you are, Tiny Dragon,
and try to treat myself with the same kindness.”*
“cited: James Norbury, Big Panda and Tiny Dragon
a solitary light
delightful, the view
from the gate in the long night…
all four directions ~Issa*
*cited: haikuguy.com
sunday morning with akazome emon
I can no longer tell dream from reality.
Into what world shall I awake.
From this bewildering dream? ~Akazome Emon*
Akazome Emon (956-1041) was a member of the great group of women poets, roughly contemporary with Murasaki and the author of the Eiga-Monogatari, the story of the supremacy of the Fujiwara, an unusual type of book for a Japanese woman to write at any time.
*cited: Trans and Edited by K Rexroth and I Atsumi. The Burning Heart Women Poets of Japan.
dawn
does the red dawn
delight you…
snail? ~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)
Every life is a point of view directed upon the universe. Strictly speaking, what one life sees no other can. Every individual, . . . is an organ, for which there can be no substitute, constructed for the apprehension of truth . . . Without the development, the perpetual change and the inexhaustible series of adventures which constitute life, the universe, or absolutely valid truth, would remain unknown . . . Reality happens to be like a landscape, possessed of an infinite number of perspectives, all equally veracious and authentic. The sole false perspective is that which claims to be the only one there is. ~José Ortega y Gasset
spring mist
even in the spring mists
the sounds of water
trailing through the rocks ~ Sokan*
*Hardy, Jackie. Haiku Poetry Ancient & Modern. Tuttle Publishing 2002
morning light ii
morning light
cmmc: august alphabet, two m’s
Two M’s: summit and never summer
Cameron Peak is a summit located in the Medicine Bow Mountains of Northern Colorado.
Medicine Bow Peak (12,014ft) is the highest summit in the Snowy Range of Wyoming. There is a network of quality alpine trails leading around the mountain and up to the summit. A paved, accessible trail is The Lake Marie Trail.
Lake Marie was named for Mrs. May (Marie) Bellamy (1861-1955) by her husband, Charles Bellamy, who was a government surveyor. After Marie was elected to the Wyoming Legislature, she led the successful suffrage drive that resulted in the passage of the 19th amendment to the United State Constitution.
The Never Summer Mountains are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in north central Colorado consisting of seventeen named peaks.
Images and video submitted in response to Cee’s midweek madness challenge: two ms.
a meditative journey 
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