 in the jungle down at the bottom - small life   ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo sheltering so much small life - graves of the ancestors  |
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Here the photo of the spider lilies provides the KIGO for the composition.
Higanbana, the spider lilies for the ancestors
visiting graves, hakamairi, is another kigo for autumn, related to the O-Bon ceremonies.
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Oh well arranged pictures and poem.
Wonderful!!
sakuo.
spider lily --
the grave stone warms
in morning sun
I believe the spider lily is thought by some to be beautiful and others to be shunned. Those that shun it feel it associated with ghosts and graves.
I feel it is such a strickingly beautiful flower. Some parts of Japan have a spider lily festival along the rivers where the lily grows with such profusion as to look like a crimson carpet along the river banks.
ai... chibi
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