This month Paula (Lost in Translation) offers a photo challenge that invites photo interpretations of: sky-high, gorge, sociable, sanctuary, transcoloured.
Sky High: in the back ground is a glimpse of the Rocky Mountains — elevation 14,440′
Landscape imge: Metadata: Leica D-Lux 7 … f/2.8 .. 1/10,000s .. 34mm .. 200 ISO. Edited: Capture One
it stirs the soul
of even the most indifferent person–
first autumn winds
~Saigyo
pears and an apple
Metadata: Leica D-Lux-7 f/2.3 1/250s 15.6mm 200 ISO edited: Capture One
The autumn wind
more white
than the rocks in the rocky mountains ~Basho
Oh leaves, ask the wind which of you
Will be the first to fall. ~Soseki
Along this road
Is none but I
This autumn eve. ~ Basho
in branches dense
with cicadas’ drone —
one autumn leaf ~Shohaku
“But why now?”
You will ask, awake
in autumn night. ~ Nishiyama Soin*
Images of past autumns with autumn haiku submitted for this week’s Lens-Artists photo challenge: colors of autumn
The dark sky dulls my dreamy mind,
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
The down-dripping rain lingers–
O my tears down falling, longing after thee! ~The diary of Murasaki Shikibu
Rapidly tonight my boat floats down the river under a cloud-dappled sky. I look into the water; it is as clear as the night. When clouds float past the moon, I seem them floating in the river, and feel I am rowing in the sky.
I think of my love … mirrored so in my heart. ~Tu Fu*
sun-tipped blossom submitted in response to Cee’s flower of the day photo challenge
*cited: The Jude Flute Gutenberg.org
waiting for autumn…
Compared to last year,
this has even more loneliness —
autumn evening ~Buson (Haiku Master Buson, Trans: Y Sawa & E Shiffert)
Leaves submitted in response to Cee’s flower of the day photo challenge
“…’when I looked out, opening the sliding door on the corridor, I saw the morning moon very faint and beautiful,’ …”
~The Sarashina Dairy (cited: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan)
Weekend skies with Hammad Rais
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