the app says build smoke;
create fire without heat
this is the future
©JP/davh
Saturday, July 5, 2014
CD: tan renga 42 Rotsu
higon-mae samusa mo hito-yo futa-yo kana
before the spring equinox;
the cold will last
only a night or two more © Yasomura Rotsu
*
stoking the fire again
to expel the last cold (Chèvrefeuille)
© Yasomura Rotsu
higon-mae samusa mo hito-yo futa-yo kana
before the spring equinox;
the cold will last
only a night or two more
*
ashes from the fireplace
to the spring garden will go
©JP/davh
CD: HS 12 : Laughter
glinting and gilded
are the notes of our autumn
years shared together
~~~
walls echo aging
humor - remembering them
where they stood laughing
~~~
capturing tickles
grandchildren making music
without speaking words
©JP/davh
Friday, July 4, 2014
CD: 506 Issa 1
shônin no nishi no fujinami ima ya saku
the holy man's
westward waves of wisteria
fresh-bloomed
© Kobayashi Issa
~~~
Wisteria waves
on the soft spring breeze -
the crow of a rooster
© Chèvrefeuille
~~~
little purple peas ~
soft flower petals bring peace
as I meditate
©JP/davh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisteria
Thursday, July 3, 2014
CD : 505 Buson 1
ashiyowa no watarite nigoru haru no mizu
wading through it,
her feet muddied
the spring water
© Yosa Buson
her soft feet
I feel close to mine -
spring rain
&
mountain stream
whispers through the valley -
winter has gone
© Chèvrefeuille
always muddled in
the deepest kind of thought, creek
shadows my thinking
near, clear spring lost humor, for
in a public space, she cries
full of the debris
from those who without thought, leave
much trash and litter
©JP/davh
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
CD : 504 Chiyo Ni 1
koborete wa tada no mizunari beni no tsuyu
the dew of the rouge-flower,
when it is spilled
is simply water
© Chiyo-Ni
Rouge is Red so I looked up Red Lily:
Red Lily is the same flower as the Sacred Lotus in the Buddhist tradition.
It is for spirituality and connection to God in a grounded and centred way,
allowing a person to have a wholeness to their spirituality by also realising
the need to develop and maintain a balanced physical and emotional life.
(This information came with an ad to buy a product.)
Then I looked up Sacred lotus: Which is pink;
So perhaps, the rouge-flower is not a lily, but a lotus.
*
*
*
return to oneness
a single drop of dew in
a sacred lotus
©JP/davh
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
CD : Ghost 15
'Kabir the Indian poet-saint'' by Kuheli
Sharing with you a song of Kabir saab
translated by Rabindranath Tagore in 1915 for
SONGS OF KABÎR.
O How may I ever express that secret word?
O how can I say He is not like this, and He is like that?
If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed:
If I say that He is without me, it is falsehood.
He makes the inner and the outer worlds to be indivisibly one;
The conscious and the unconscious, both are His footstools.
He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed:
There are no words to tell that which He is.
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*
*
on the dark night
how may i call you?
rain moon
© Kuheli
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
consciousness
holds no name and mine
with every choice I make
(or)
a consciousness holds
no name and mine with every
choice I make; and you?
©JP/davh
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