photo challenge

weekly photo challenge: container

in the box

four or five pennies…

night of winter rain

                        ~Issa*

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weekly photo challenge: between

Gone down, I thought–

’til the moon emerged  again

between clouds

                          ~ Shua*

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Haiku Before Haiku

Steven D Carter

weekly photo challenge: letters

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A writing stand,


paper, the moon…


riches

Sue

Riches — in Sue’s mind because set up to write poems. —

Aha, but will you catch the fishes (words) or not? — says Chiyo.

This imagery of fishes standing for words, especially fishes (words) that will not be caught (found) occurs in Buddhist literature and in Chinese poetry*

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http://www.ahapoetry.com/twamth1.htm

With Liquid Voice Unendingly 
by Kago-no Chiyo-ni and Sue Jo.
Translated by Lenore Mayhew and William McNaughton in Modern Haiku, XIV:2, 1983.

weekly photo challenge: treasure

even an old man
has New Year’s eyes…
cherry blossoms

                             ~Issa*

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“The Virgin of the Rocks” Leonardo de Vinci, 1452-1519

Within the mind is a storehouse of memories that entered our psyche through the windows of our senses.  The treaures received through the gift of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell…these are what I have come to cherish as yearnings for possessions fade from desire.  What I yearn for now is to live a life filled with the creation of memories to visit and revisit again.

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weekly photo challenge: one shot, two ways

the wonder of

flowers opening

and birds singing:

prayers!

ka ya hiraki / nori toku tori no / kirabiyaka ~Gozan (1695-1733)*

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*This haikai trickery, a palindrome, reads the same forward and backward in kana (the Japanese alphabet)

 source: The Classic Tradition of haiku

Ed: Faubion Bowers

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: escape

Coming, all is clear, no doubt about it

Going, all is clear, without a doubt

What, then, is it all? ~ Hosshin*

escape

A new post specifically created for this WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge:  escape

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Japanese Death Poems

Yoel Hoffmann