I can no longer tell dream from reality.
Into what world shall I awake
from this bewildering dream?
~Akazome Emon*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
Trans: K Rexroth & I Atsumi
sky
weekly photo challenge: pure
Jen’s photo challenge for this week is to “share a photo of something pure…Pure can convey wholesomeness, something undiluted, or simplicity.”
The fireflies light
How easily it goes on
How easily it goes out again
~Chine-Jo
Sunset
black & white sunday: local watering hole
The source of water for the residents of Fort Collins, CO comes from large areas of land that drain snowmelt and rainfall waters to the Upper Cache la Poudre River, Big Thompson River, and Horsetooth Reservoir.
While walking around Horsetooth during this past winter, I was drawn to the composition of these elements of the shoreline… rocks, ice, water, and sky.
Horsetooth Reservoir
Offered in response to Irene Water’s challenge as a guest at Paula’s Lost in Translation
a gift from heaven
the cloud-covered sky
is all open
the heart of takuhatsu
as it is–
a gift from heaven
~Ryokan*
*cited:
Sky Above, Great Wind
Kazuaki Tanahashi
A rural lighthouse
A Mill
weekly photo challenge: up
…and then I heard Mist whisper,
“Silence the chattering within your mind.
Up look up to the sky and witness the unseen and unnamed
as she urges me into one form and then another
in our journey across the morning sky.”
a meditative journey 
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