Carpe Diem Theme Week “The Songs of Milarepa”(2) “flying clouds”
Category: Tanka
Time Travel- Tale of the Genji
Carpe Diem Time Travel #2 The Tale of Genji
The Tale of the Gengi -by Murasaki Shikibu
where the cicada casts her shell
in the shadows of the tree,
there is one whom I love well
though her heart is cold to me
(the “answer”):
amidst dark shadows of the tree,
cicada’s wing with dew is wet,
so in mine eyes unknown to thee,
spring sweet tears of fond regret
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all the loneliness
of your early departure
spills into the night
moonflower’s beauty fading
light penetrating shadows
hidden in the bark
a clinging cicada shell
filled with nothingness
my shrouded heart still hugging
fragrance of our last embrace
Tan Renga Challenges
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
Day 28 Summer Retreat Unconditional Love
Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2017 (unconditional love
a mother robin
repeatedly brings food
to her loud juvenile
responding to cries
of a loud juvenile
a mother robin
devotedly seeks worms
to satisfy his demands
Day 2 – Summer Retreat unconditional love
Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2017 (unconditional)
summer’s evening
love lies bleeding
in the moonlight
anticipation flows
two red hearts beat as one
summer blossoms
an endless season
filled with love
Potted Plant
Carpe Diem #1175 Theme Week Hafiz (1) potted plant
preparing seed trays
in celebration of spring
planting new species
removed from the dark
my potted plant plant takes a drink
reaches toward sunlight
earth day
pulling the wagon
we take a walk
in celebration
you pick up trash
weeding the garden
I leave some dead nettle
for emerging bees
Filtered Light
Carpe Diem #1172 filtered light
