Nikon D750 f/4.5 1/640 85m 100 ISO
cache la poudre river
nature
thursday’s special: lost in detail
Even if it were not so,
Something unseen,
Suddenly
Starts me awake-struck by
The sound of a bell
~Goshūishū (cited: http://www.wakapoetry.net)
Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/4,000s 42m 100 ISO
Submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s photo challenge
a path
Simply with sorrow
And nothing
More in mind
Both left and right
Sleeves are soaked.
~Suma (cited:wakapoetry.net)
Nikon D750 f/5.6 1/4,000s 56mm ISO 100
reflection & i
growing side by side
spring rain
reflection & i
poppy & i
just being alive
I
and the poppy
~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)
a gift from Earth
Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/800 85mm 100 ISO
…Just as we are made of non-human elements and the flower is full of non-flower elements, the Earth is made of non-Earth elements. Like us, the Earth contains air, fire, and water, as well as the sun and particles from distant stars in faraway galaxies. In fact, we can se that the Earth is made exclusively of non-Earth elements. The whole cosmos has come together to produce the wonder that is this planet…
~Thich Nhát Hanh (Love Letter to the Earth)
leaning towards the left
Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/500 46mm 100 ISO
earth
Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/500 85mm 100 ISO
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is earth…home.
~Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut (cited: Thich Nhát Hanh, Love Letter to the Earth)
watching the moon
Watching the moon
at dawn,
solitary, mid-day,
I knew myself completely,
no part left out.
~Izumi Shikibu (J Hirshfield & M Aratani, The Ink Dark Moon)
hopes of visitors
In this mountain village
where I’ve given up
all hopes of visitors,
how drab life would be
without my loneliness.
~Saigyō (Trans. B Watson, Poems of a Mountain Home)
silent sunday
Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/320 24mm 100 ISO
Intermolecular Forces
The practice of the presence of God as being
comparable to that of consciousness
finally makes possible “full awareness” applied
to every thought, word, and deed.
~ Unknown
a meditative journey 
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