two sets of footprints
in freshly fallen snow
one pair from Kyoto
© Hamish Managua Gunn
the other from Osaka
did their owner’s pause to greet?
© Dolores
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Ishizuchi mo nankin no hana mo ooi nari
The flower of a pumpkin
as well as Mt. Ishizuchi
is great in scale
© Tomiyasu Fusei (1885 – 1979)
the moonflower
swallows the harvest moon
© Dolores
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The “hokku” of today is by me, so it is a tanka., not a Tan Renga
autumn evening
like whispered prayers
leaves float away
in the silence left behind
a hint of fresh hope
© Dolores
Ada's Poetry Alcove (2) 