As I view the moon,
Many thoughts come into my mind,
And my rememberings are sad
Yet, it is not for me alone,
That this spring has come.
nature
100 days…55th day
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*
*cited:
black & white sunday: diagonals
making the lawn
a sit-down tea house…
summer trees.
~Issa*
submitted in response to Lost In Translation’s black and white photo challenge
*cited:
100 days…51st day
On a pitch-dark night road
I get lost
watching the moon
set behind the faraway mountain
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky above, Great Wind
Trans: K Takahashi
100 days…50th day
The fields in spring time
Lie trailed with mist
And somewhat sadly
In this evening gloam
A bush warbler, sings
~Otomo no Yakamochi*
*cited:
100 days…49th day
rain falls –
a memory of last year
left by a cloud
100 days…48th day
Morning and evening
I gazed at
incense smoke –
drifting,
remembering…
100 days 47th day
In an old temple
deep in Mount Koya,
Kii Province,
I listen to raindrops
falling from a cedar tree.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
100 days…44th day
Morning haze
hides blossoms from the wind
too completely
~Senjun*
*cited:
Haiku before Haiku
Trans: S Carter
100 days…43rd day
I am a drop of dew
Hanging from a leaf
Yet, I am not unrestful
For on this branch, I seem to have existed
From before the birth of the world
~Izumi Shikibu
100 days…42nd day
Grasses in a mist
and water flowing silently,
daylight fading
~Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Trans: Y Sawa & E Shiffert
100 days…41st day
Springtime rain!
Almost dark, and yet
today still lingers
~Buson*
this image is available through Turning Art
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Trans: Y Sawa & E Shiffert
a meditative journey 
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