Thursday, 26 April 2012

some spring-time snow

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here, amidst flurrying cherry blossoms
it’s as though some spring-time snow
were falling and did not melt  


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spending the spring night in the foothills
I slept, and deep inside my dream
blossoms fell without cease


Ki no Tsurayuki  (872-945)





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19 comments:

  1. Roxana26 April 2012 at 21:13

    i am currently away from home, spending a few days in Veliko-Tarnovo, once the capital of the Bulgarian empire, a wonderful little town set upon hills in terraces following the meanders of the Yantra river. more photos will follow :-)

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  2. mythopolis26 April 2012 at 22:54

    I feel enchanted!

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  3. Anonymous26 April 2012 at 23:16

    ...jetzt bin bezaubert, verzaubert..! Die Fotos sind einfach so schön, von hoher Sensibilität erschafft (wenn man das in der Fotografie sagen darf), so schön.. :-)!... Siehst Du, wie ich schwärmen kann :-)! Nein, nun ganz ernsthaft, ich finde, sie strahlen so viel Frieden und Schönheit aus, dass man sich völlig ruhig und vielleicht auch glückselig fühlt. Ach, ich freue mich schon auf Deine weiteren Werke..!
    Mit einer lieben Umarmung und einem grossen Dankeschön von Renée

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  4. clo27 April 2012 at 00:22

    Juste une douce pensée en passant...
    Une pensée papillon ,légère comme la brise d'avril...
    Merci pour toute cette beauté ,pour la poésie qui émane de chacun de tes post et qui amène a poser sur les choses un autre regard ,avec d'autres émotions , ça me surprend toujours et ça me touche profondément..bises
    A bientot ..:)

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  5. Marion McCready27 April 2012 at 01:39

    I'm always amazed at how you manage to take these pictures, the perfect shake of snow over that adorable town.

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  6. Prospero27 April 2012 at 02:55

    Just call me the Heliogabalus of snow: i will sit here, counting each delicate and uniquely reticulate flake, till i feel a shiver so intense that my feeble eyes numb with cold.

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  7. musicwithinyou27 April 2012 at 04:05

    The first photo has me captivated with the snow coming down. spring snow is like getting a winter gift in spring.

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  8. Roxana27 April 2012 at 11:34

    but these are petals (and i believe, leaves as well), raised in the air by a sudden gush of terrible wind which marked the beginning of a spring storm! i just happened to be there, i was strolling with the camera on one terrace which overlooked the town - this amazing flurry lasted for about 5 minutes!!!


    the comparison between the falling of cherry blossoms in spring and snow in winter is a constant topic of Japanese poems, as illustrated in the first verse i chose for the post :-)

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  9. Miriam27 April 2012 at 15:52

    fiindca imaginile,din carti,realitate sau fotografii,sunt,pentru mine,indesate in simtiri,peste timp,acele petreceri ale noptii peste dealuri,da,cesare pavese,cu cartile lui despre oameni care se descopera nevoiti fiind sa fuga.
    iarasi,precum la postarea cu turnul in campie,sentimentul de provizorat:)atunci,se pare,la limita existentei,pot intelege eu mai multe despre continua inflorire...
    draga mea,si petalele imi am intesc de peisajele acelea japoneze,pline cu frunze,in toamna,aurii,cazand,aur,peste tot.voi astepta aceasta toamna,in care albul de acum va deveni auriu:)ai,acolo,o chintesenta a casei,atatea povesti intr-o imagine,parca ea nu s-ar topi,intr-adevar,daca ai scufunda-o in apa,apoi ai avea-o,din nou,vegetatie subacvatica:)

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  10. Prospero27 April 2012 at 15:55

    Heliogabalus sees what he wants to see (a notion so infectious it knows no bounds). The frigidity is a little harder to explain, but in unadorned madness, all senses are equipotent.

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  11. g sutton breiding27 April 2012 at 20:06

    spring like a geisha
    unbearble pink
    a million petals soon gone
    quicker than snow, quicker
    than this
    life

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  12. Lynne with an e28 April 2012 at 04:02

    Those tiny miracles in a polka dot sky warm the soul and delight the eye.

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  13. Anonymous28 April 2012 at 08:30

    hello my beautiful friend.oh how deeply enchanting!oh you lead me to want to write a fairy tale. well I am in the middle of writing a novel but I can always take a few literary leaps haha.
    ah my friend how beautiful and I must confess I said to a couple of friends today as it actually did snow here so yes it was springtime snow, hahs I said that is really not falling snowflakes they are falling white daisy petals blown by the springtime wind and they absolutely loved it! we are so used to making jokes around here about springtime snow that we always welcome new thoughts. and ofcourse it was the bridge that inspired me!

    je t'embrasse avec toutes les couleurs magnfiques du printemps.

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  14. W.O.Larsen29 April 2012 at 23:03

    Thanks magician...

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  15. Ffflaneur30 April 2012 at 20:37

    enchanting indeed, that flurry of flurrying cherry blossoms

    looking forward to "more photos!"

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  16. Stickup Artist1 May 2012 at 08:20

    I love the rooftops in that town. They are all the same dusky rose! And the fact that these are petals is enchanting. I would have loved to feel those falling petals on my skin...

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  17. Roxana3 May 2012 at 00:16

    thank you all, my dear friends... without you, the Bridge would have unlearned floating.

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  18. Anonymous4 May 2012 at 23:45

    Der Stadtausschnitt mit Schneefall ist ein gelungenens Muster - Aber mir gefällt eigentlich alles was du in den Blog stellst. Beste Grüße

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  19. Sharon5 May 2012 at 20:25

    Marlevous! Such unexpected beauty. A flurry of petals. The wonders of sprintime.

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