photography

fall flowers…all faded

blow if you will,

fall wind–the fall flowers

have all faded.

~Gansen*

*cited:

Japanese Death Poems

Yoel Hoffmann

weekly photo challenge: gone, but but forgotten

over the fields of

last night’s snow–

plum fragrance.

~Okano Kin’emon Kanehide*

spring rain showers

visit the dailypost.wordpress.com to participate in Krista’s photo challenge, “show us something that is lost, but not forgotten,”

*cited:

Japanese Death Poems

Yoel Hoffmann

Joy…

glowing leaves

fallen to the ground

like those words of old–

glowing leaves

~Inko*

*cited:

Haiku before Haiku

Steven Carter

weekly photo challenge: converge

the convergence of “ask” to “look it up” within a library setting

visit the dailypost to join Ben’s photo challenge: converge

who paints the image

Who speaks the sound of an echo?

Who paints the image in a mirror?

Where are the spectacles in a dream?

Nowhere at all — that’s the nature of mind!

~Tree-Leaf Woman*

*cited:

Women in Praise of the Sacred

Ed: Jane Hirshfield

weekly photo challenge: angular

This week Xiao Yu offers a photo challenge at The Daily Post: “Not to put too fine a point on it, though this week, we challenge you to show us what “angular” means to you… It might mean the corner on which you live or the intersection of sea and sky at 180 degree angle. Angular also offers a chance to shoot from an entirely new perspective: from above, below, or even from the margins of the fray…”