Sweet and sad
like love overwhelmed
with long sighs,
out of the depths of the willow
little by little
the moon appears.
~Tosano Akiko*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
K Rexroth & I Atsumi
spring snow
revives the greenery
then goes
~Kawai Chigetsu (1634?-1718)*
“on your left” cyclist’s mantra
*cited:
Far Beyond the Field
Makoto Ueda
where the entire
mountain has been trampled
a lady flower
~Uda Kiyoko*
valley of contentment
*cited:
Far Beyond the Field
Makoto Ueda
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
*cited:
The Ink Dark Moon
J Hirshfield & M Aratani
A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of its making,
Gold doesn’t vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
Must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God.
~Mechtild of Magdeburg*
*cited:
Women in Praise of the Sacred
J Hirshfield
Spring Creek Trail…a wondrous spring day…
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Lines
in the twilight mist
where they go I cannot see…
I envy the wild geese
only their voices trailing behind
~ Rengetsu-ni
Well…what did I do…should have taken notes…hum…
In response to Apple’s recent decision to retire Aperture, I have been exploring Lightroom and Photoshop as alternative application options…so this week I jumped right into Photoshop and learned rather quickly that I need a tutorial for the various tutorials and that my learning style is most likely one built upon trial and error…but after learning about layers and playing with masking I did create an image that I eventually took into Silver Effects for a final touch up.
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When I look at the moon
I am overcome by the sadness
of a thousand, thousand things —
even though it is not Fall
for me alone.
~Oe no Chisato*
from bare brush
along a mountain path–
the sound of frost
~Shinkei*
*cited:
Haiku before Haiku
Steven Carter
brittle autumn leaves
that crumble in the
north wind…
~Takao*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Yoel Hoffmann
week two…for this week’s ongoing challenge I went into Perfect Effects 4 and added a layer from a preset, “whiteness”, which I created some time ago, then added a layer from Perfect Effect’s True Film category, “green velvet”, and then found that by playing around with darkening the edges (highlighting, clarity, and shadows) seemed to add more depth of field.
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