Ryokan

weekly photo challenge: curve

If anyone

is going to my hometown,

send a message that

I have passed

Omi Province.

~Ryokan*

100dayssundrive

submitted in response to Cheri’s photo challenge “…get inspired by the curves around you…”

*cited:

Sky Above, Great Wind

Trans: K Tanahashi

 

five of seven…wired

On a quiet evening in my thatch-roofed hut,

alone I play a lute with no strings.

It’s melody enters wind and cloud,

mingles deeply with a flowing stream,

fills out the dark valley,

blows through the vast forest, then disappears.

Other than those who hear emptiness,

who will capture this rare sound?

                              ~Ryokan*

elsewhere

*cited:

Sky Above, Great Wind

K Tanahashi

peaceful spring

Day by day, day by day, and day by day,

quietly in the company of children I live.

In my sleeves, tiny embroidered balls, two or three.

Useless, intoxicated, in this peaceful spring.

                                                                      ~Ryokan*

budding

*cited:

Sky Above, Great Wind

K Tanahashi