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
postaday
100 days…46th day
Gloriously
Shines the spring sun
A skylark soars
And sad am I,
Alone with my thoughts
~Man’yoshu*
*cited:
weekly photo challenge: spare
Krista’s photo challenge for May 27th is to “get inspired by the many connotations of the word spare.”
Spare: adjective (Roget’s International Thesaurus)
- simple
- plain
- uniform
- stark
cattails
100 days…38th day
Through the years
I’ve become used to sorrow,
there was not one spring
I didn’t leave behind
the flowers.
~Izumi Shikibu*
*cited:
The Ink Dark Moon
Trans: J Hirshfield & M Aratani
100 days…37th day
If I say
this or that,
how ordinary grief becomes –
broken cries are the words
that sorrow’s voice demands
~Izumi Shikibu*
*cited:
The Ink Dark Moon
Trans: J Hirshfield & M Aratani
100 days…36th day
a butterfly flits
about the fishing pole line
spring breeze
100 days…35th day
Springtime rain!
Almost dark, and yet
today still lingers
~Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Trans: Y Sawa & E Shiffert
weekly photo challenge: face
weekly photo challenge: Orange you glad it’s photo challenge time?
looking, looking
at the mandarin orange…
year’s first calligraphy
~Issa*
tangelos
expresso
Join Michelle’s challenge: Orange you glad it’s photo challenge time?
*cited:
weekly photo challenge: reward
Take care now;
I am going for
takuhatsu.
You stay in this
borrowed hut.
~Ryokan*
Join Krista’s Reward photo challenge!
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
K. Tanahashi
weekly photo challenge: silhouette
is it like
a charcoal sketch —
a hazy shadow?
~Toyokuni*
to view additional images or to participate in Cheri’s silhouette photo challenge visit The Daily Post
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Yoel Hoffmann
weekly photo challenge: texture
my personal musings invite me to walk down paths of existence
that often are, for others,
unknown dimension of imaginative conclusions
to participate or view images submitted for Natalia Maks’ photo challenge visit the dailypost
a meditative journey 
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