cattails at sunset

I cast the brush aside

from here on I’ll speak to the moon

face to face

                  ~Koha*

*cited:

http://www.thegreenleaf.co.uk

initially posted in November 2014

cattails

contemplating snow clouds —

whitened landscape, I am part

of the winter scene ~bckofford

cattails…Nikon D750 f/7.1 1/640s 85mm 100 ISO

enlightenment

Inhale, exhale

Forward, back

Living, dying:

Arrows, let flow each to each

Meet midway and slice

The void in aimless flight-

Thus I return to the source ~Gesshu Soko

Hoffmann (Japanese Death Poems, p. 97) notes that within this poem the arrows after hitting in midair do not fall to the ground, but continue in directionless flight through empty space. He further states that the image within this poem tells of a state of consciousness in  which the concept of the ordinary mind forming one’s outlook on the world have vanished and polarities (good-bad, life-death) are embraced in an enlightened being.

I wonder…

I wonder where

 the winds of spring

drive the snow clouds

 

 

weekly photo challenge: spare

Krista’s photo challenge for May 27th is to “get inspired by the many connotations of the word spare.”

Spare: adjective (Roget’s International Thesaurus)

• simple
• plain
• uniform
• stark

cattails

cattails at sunset

I cast the brush aside

from here on I’ll speak to the moon

face to face

                  ~Koha*

*cited:

http://www.thegreenleaf.co.uk