lens-artist challenge: blue
spring snow
revives the greenery
then goes
~Kawai Chigetsu (M Ueda, Far Beyond the Field)
images submitted in response to the RGB challenge offered by dutch goes the photo
creating meaning by superimposing one story onto another…so many after-images, after-thoughts echoing through my mind leaving me to grieve the fading day.
The colors of the flowers fade
as the long rain fall,
as lost in thought,
I grow older.
~Ono no Komachi*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
Trans: K Rexroth & I Atsumi
bitter sundown–
when even dusk fades
from the blossoms
~Takayama Sozei*
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*cited:
Haiku before Haiku
Steven Carter
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