season

bloom and fade

This life of ours would not cause you sorrow

if you thought of it as like

the mountain cherry blossoms

which bloom and fade in a day.

                                                            ~Murasaki Shikibu*

catching raindrops l

catching rain drops l

this print and others are now available through Fine Art America

*cited:

Women Poets of Japan

K Rexroth & I Atsumi

going, all is clear…

 

Coming, all is clear, no doubt about it.

Going, all is clear, without a doubt.

What, then, is it all?

                                               ~Hosshin*

summer'son

*cited:

Japanese Death Poems

Y Hoffmann