Friday 16 May 2008




HEAD PRIEST: Why yes indeed, there I see the mountain wind as it courses through the branches of the trees.

MOTHER: The blossom-laden waters look

HEAD PRIEST: As waves cloaked in white fallen from above

MOTHER: of cherry blossoms

HEAD PRIEST: or snow

MOTHER: Are they waves?

HEAD PRIEST: Or are they flowers?

MOTHER: These buoyant clouds

HEAD PRIEST: in the breeze by the river

MOTHER: they scatter, like waves on Sakuragawa
They scatter, these waves on Sakuragawa.
But I shall catch the drowning blossoms.




5 comments:

  1. what an undertaking, what lovely images. you seem to have captured the emotional tenor of spring.

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  2. I wondered whether you liked them or not, you were so silent :-) I'm glad you do.

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  3. "From all directions
    Winds bring petals of cherry
    Into the grebe lake." Matsuo Basho
    ........
    Revin cu mare placere pe blogul tau,gasesc aici imagini pline de rafinament si sensibilitate...

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  4. multumesc, edith, si eu sunt bucuroasa ca ne-am "intalnit" :-)

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