Lightning flickers
only in the north:
the moon is overcast.
~Aamano Hachiro*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
trees
100 days…71st day
The fireflies’ light,
How easily it goes on
How easily it goes out again.
~Chine-Jo*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
Trans: K Rexroth & I Atsumi
black & white sunday: always there
a pheasant’s cry –
resounding in the mountains
the voice of silence
~Enomoto Seifu*
the voice of silence…always there…waiting
*cited:
Far Beyond the Field
M Ueda
100 days…69th day
This phantasm
of falling petals vanishes into
moon and flowers …
~Okyo*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Yoel Hoffmann
100 days…64th day
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
100 days…62nd day
Only today left
of spring. My walking
ended it.
~Buson*
*cited:
Haiku Master Buson
Trans: Y Sawa & E Shiffert
black and white sunday: timeless
The depth of the hearts
Of humankind cannot be known.
But in my birthplace
The plum blossoms smell the same
As in the years gone by.
~Ki no Tsurayuki*
image submitted in response to Lost in Translation’s b&w challenge: timeless
*cited:
ah, the deep woods
Ah, the deep woods –
so quiet one can hear
blossoms fall
~Shinkei*
100 days…30th day
*cited:
Haiku before Haiku
Trans: S Carter
simply…
simply for all this,
as if there were nothing else,
heavy wet spring frost
~Issa*
100 days…26th day
*cited:
The Spring of My Life
Trans: S Hamill
today, today too…
Today, today too
somehow getting by these days, still
living in a haze
~Issa*
100 days…18 days
*cited:
The Spring of my Life
Trans: S Hamill
this, too, is karma
under the shady trees
resting with a butterfly–
this, too, is karma
~Issa*
100 days…13th day
*cited:
The Spring of My Life
Trans: S Hamill
weekly photo challenge: future
As I walk about the campus at Colorado State University…my memories take me back to those days of hope…of expectation…of dreams…of a Future yet to be. Today, a journey through past days.
The Commons at CSU
a meditative journey 
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