awakening

cupping

my

palms

in

the

quickening

river-

a sip of peace

~

Clip courtesy anonymous photographer!

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a mirage of summer

 

Just a photo

Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)

hunting… this or that

 

butterfly soars –

 a lost soul

 looking

~

This was the image I first chose to accompany the haiku :

But the meaning implicit in the scroll was quite different from what I intended…

which is this:

 

Two cats, two butterflies (or is one a moth?), two very similar images. The only real difference is that in the first the cats eyes are open; in the other they are closed.

What a difference it makes to the interpretation of the poem. Who is the lost soul? I love the way haiku encourage me to think outside the box…

 

First image: hanging scroll courtesy Museum Fine Arts, Boston. Late 19th century. Mori Kansai

Second image: Japanese silk panels courtesy Naga Antiques. Artist unknown.

mirror

the water must be still

 to see things

 as they are

~

I don’t know who to acknowledge for the image, but ‘thank you’ anyway!

that’s life

 

surprise –

fat moths flutter

on my favourite jumper

~

 

 

 

Image courtesy Jeffery Coolidge/Getty Images

vision

rowing

 in the morning mist –

he becomes an island

~

Image courtesy Kevin @ Wynnchester Camping and Adventure Ltd

mort

first autumn chill:

two dragonflies –

last love affair

~

Image courtesy Andrew Ezhov

october

autumn leaves quiver

in the fading light –

a stag roars

~

Image courtesy Dan Kitwood. Taken in Richmond Park, London

cleansed

 

 

 

on the beach –

anxiety washed

clean away

~

 

 

 

 

 

Image courtesy David Tunstall

flow

 summer affair

fading –

as the autumn leaves

~

Image courtesy Earth Rights Walker