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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Wednesday Haiku #16




In my ten-foot bamboo hut this spring,
There is nothing;
There is everything!

haiku by Yamaguchi Sodō (1642 -1716)









Against the chilly sky, washed
grey with dawn, A single
pine-tree on the peak is drawn.

Haiku by Gyodai















That flight of Egrets
if they gave no cry,
Would be a streak of snow
 across the sky.

haiku by Yamazaki Sokan (1464-1552)












Sunday, February 25, 2018

Starlight Tree House
A garden surprise

Monday greetings!
Today is another chance to participate in Toni's Creative Adventures,
which, of course, I really enjoy.
Click to join in
The Garden Surprise
1.Walking through a public garden I came across the strangest and
most beautiful tree house you could ever imagine.
It was huge. Larger than any tree I had ever seen before.
It had begun to grow in the dim, distant past before Noah built his marvelous ship.
I had never seen this tree in the garden before, I thought.
How could anyone have missed it and how in the world was it not famous?
Its enormous size and the house built into it were amazing to me yet strangely familiar as well.
I felt a welcoming vibe that bid me to knock.

Starlight Cottage Tree House


2.   Truly in awe of what I was seeing, I stopped and and looking up saw that the top
of the tree reached up into the stars.
You could climb that tree and visit the stars!

3.   Can it  possibly be meant to just be admired or is it possible to live in this house?
I knocked on the door and very quickly a tall, handsome man answered.
"Welcome" he said."You are very late but I have been expecting you all these  years
 I've wondered what has taken you so very long. It can only be that you have taken
 twists and turns along life's road and neglected to come back home on the proper path."
I could barely speak. I had no idea what was happening but I did know I belonged
in that house.
"Come and have a seat over here," he said and gestured to a chair beside
the large bookcase.
It was filled with first editions and rare works of antiquity.
"While you make yourself at home  I will get you a cup of tea to settle your nerves."
He chuckled to himself and I sat down to see where all of this would lead.
I was strangely drawn to him.
We talked for hours and I began to realize we had known one another in other times
 and other places. I had lived  in this tree before and I would live in it
again with this wonderful man.
No one else could see that marvelous tree , but it would always be here for me anytime
 I needed to come and I knew I would come often and
 I knew that one day I would stay forever.

4.   I'm so glad I decided to visit this garden today
or I never would have found my way back to my life.

Thank you, Toni, for this wonderful set of fill in the blanks that enable us to create little tales.
The picture is a painting I did when I first set out to try to paint.  .
"Probably back in the tree house days of old"..she said winking.


Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Wednesday Haiku #6









His brush abruptly leaps and flicks and swishes;
 Swiftly across the paper swim two fishes.
 by Ho-O













The geisha flirt their fans;
their sashes trail
like goldfish undulating fins and tail.
by Getto















I   saw afar a vast white cloud...but no!
That was Yoshinb's mount of flowering snow!
by Teishitsu












I hope you enjoy the Haiku written by some of Japan's most famous poets.
The first and last brush paintings are my own. The Geisha was found on Pinterest.