winter afternoon:
light drains away before
the sun is down.
Short Days [Haiku]
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Mid-Winter [Haiku]
mid-Winter
pretends to be Autumn:
green with leaf linger.
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DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Xieng Khuan [Buddha Park]
“A not admitting of the wound” (1188) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
A not admitting of the wound
Until it grew so wide
That all my Life had entered it
And there were troughs beside -
A closing of the simple lid
that opened to the sun
Until the tender Carpenter
Perpetual nail it down -
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Ice-laden [Haiku]
ice-laden trees:
frigid limbs wish to dip,
but are too stiff.
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Bifurcated [Haiku]
DAILY PHOTO: Bamboo Bridges of Vang Vieng
PROMPT: Dream Home
I think Chōmei said everything that need be said on the matter — and more eloquently than I would — in Hōjōki [i.e. 10-Foot Square Hut.]
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“Wine Spring” by Pan Lang [w/ Audio]
I remember viewing the West Lake
While leaning on a pagoda rail.
The boats all clustered in threes or twos.
The islets under deep Autumn blues.
Flute song arose from among the cattails.
And a line of white birds - overhead - sailed.
I planned to fix my old fishing pole,
but clouds on water had my mind & soul.
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