night of dancing
Bon Festival, just today
and tomorrow
~Issa*
*cited:
postaday
weekly photo challenge: look up
today too, heat
and tomorrow, more heat?
house in trees.
~Issa*
taking a moment to Look Up and check what’s going on above me
*cited:
100 days…80th day
Pine mushrooms
live a thousand years
in one summer?
Easterbrook, WY
100 days…78th day
Seventy-eight!
How did
a dew drop last?
100 days…77th day
I have not yet grown tired
of this world – where do
weary winds blow?
~Gofu
100 days…76th day
The path to paradise
is paved with bright
plum petals.
~Masumi Kato*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
100 days…74th day
O morning glory –
I, too, yearn for
eternity.
~Shohi*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
100 days…73rd day
If someone asks
about the mind of this monk,
say it is no more than
a passage of wind
in the vast sky.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
100 days…70th day
See and realize
that this world
is not permanent.
Neither late nor early flowers
will remain.
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
100 days…69th day
This phantasm
of falling petals vanishes into
moon and flowers …
~Okyo*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Yoel Hoffmann
100 days…67th day
Children,
let’s go to the mountain
to view violets.
If they scatter away tomorrow,
what can we do?
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Trans: K Tanahashi
weekly photo challenge: partners
at one place
it goes through darkness –
the ring of dancers
~Hashimoto Takako*
Michelle’s photo challenge for the week of Friday, June 24th is : Partners,
“…share an image of partners. A pair, a trio, a sextet; people, building, plants — what ever you choose to shoot, give us subjects that are in tune with one another.”
*cited:
Far Beyond the Field
M Ueda
a meditative journey 
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