morning sky

Chat about the snow

on Fuji’s peak–

and summer is no more

~Sanjonishi Sanetaka (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)
“When I look at the trees in front of me, my mind does not go outside of me into the forest, nor does it open a door to let the trees in. My mind fixes on the trees, but they are not a distant object. My mind and trees are one. The trees are only one of the miraculous manifestations of the mind.”

~Thich Nhat Hanh (The Sun My Heart)

dads being dads

if my father were here–

dawn colors

over green fields

~Issa (www.haikyguy.com)

escaping the heat

Hearts are one

in the cool shade

of a single pine.

~Gyojo (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)

coming to visit

this summer breeze

a gentle guide for the one

coming to visit 

 

leaving summer behind

Going deep,

I leave summer behind

on the mountain path

~Soseki (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)

oblivious

Spring departs —

the clear moon oblivious

of passing time

~Soseki (S Carter, Haiku before Haiku)

black & white sunday: typical

from the tip

of the forest ranger’s broom. . . 

spring departs

~Issa (www.haikuguy.com)

Trees…Medicine Bow National Forest

Medicine Bow National Forest extends from north central Colorado to central Wyoming in the United States. The origin of  it’s name, Medicine Bow, is legendary. The generally accepted version is that the Native American tribes which inhabited southeastern Wyoming found mountain mahogany in one of the mountain valleys from which bows of exceptional quality were made. It became the custom of friendly tribes to assemble there annually and construct their weapons. At these assemblies, there were ceremonial powwows for the cure of disease which, in the hybrid speech that developed between the Indians and the early settlers, was known as making medicine. Eventually, the settlers associated the terms “making-medicine” and “making bow”, and Medicine Bow resulted as the name for the locality.

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