First Firefly

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初蛍　嬉しい限りの　初蛍



first firefly
I am so happy
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firefly (hotaru) KIGO



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blessings

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summer evening -
I count my blessings
again and again




Today I feel very rich !


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wanderlust

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wanderlust ...
a small snail
on the fresh green moss








shorten it to


wanderlust ...
a small snail
on fresh moss



..... wanderlust ..... snail ..... moss .....



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The rainy season brings out the best in the moss ... and the little snails ...



Snail (katatsumuri, katatsuburi)Japan, worldwide



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herons circle

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summer solitude -
two herons circle
to gain hight



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They are extremely beautiful
in contrast with the green walls of my valley !

They came in from the lowest entry to our rather small round valley and circled their way up, as they always do in the evening spin of the wind.
With the bamboo and forest so green, they were just beautiful, first seing their white backs way down, then at eye level and finally against the blue sky up high ... and off over the highest part of the valley to the next one ...



Heron (aosagi)


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Buzzard

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tea break ...
we watch a buzzard shit
from the telephone pole



He sat there for a while on the only pole amongst the rice paddies, then lifted his tail feathers, took a deep breath (so to say) and then squeezed a huge white load out, more than a meter behind himself ... where it then made its way toward the earth ...


Since this spring, we see him more often, trying to compete with the local tombi, the black milan.



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Tanada Matsuri

Tanada Matsuri - Rice Paddy Festival 棚田祭り　２００８ village festival - the smell of wild boar from the barbeque tents in the park

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The wild boars have been rather a nuisance in the last few years, as you might remember me writing about them and the hunters quite often.
This hunter had brought the result of his winter activities and shared a delicious shashlik with all of the villagers.


Start the walk from HERE (16 photos) !
Tanada Photo Album




My Village Ohaga and the Tanada rice paddies
Ohaga Michi no Eki



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a sad smile

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rainy season ...
I begin this day
with a sad smile




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Kigo Hotline ...




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rainy season starts

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rainy season ...
a heavy downpoor
bumps on my dreams

rainy season ...
time to surf for more
internet stories


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Ichigo Ichie

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Ichigo Ichie 一期一会

One Time, One Encounter

Many people are easily bored with routines such as sweeping the floor, making a bed, or preparing a meal. The motto in the Japanese tea ceremony schools is ichigo ichie which means "one time, one encounter." Though all the intricate movements of the tea ceremony can be repeated, they are never the same.

For the Japanese, each moment is unrepeatable and special in its own right. Those who want to live the spiritual life would be wise to adapt this motto and apply it to everything we do. Cleaning the floor today is different from the time we did it a few days ago. The light in the room may be different or the velocity of our sweeping motion.

With ichi-go ichi-e, boredom is vanquished.

.. quoted from .. www.spiritualityandpractice.com/








One Time
One Encounter
One Haiku


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................................. ichi go ichi e


one life, one meeting

one chance, one meeting

one moment in the endless flow of time

"Treasure every meeting, for it will never recur."

"Be grateful for this never-to-be-repeated moment."

"We only have one chance
to enjoy this present moment."





© しのパパ

More haiga are HERE !

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BACKUP

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a haiku
just for the moment ...
no backup



Data can be lost on the Internet at any time !


So
I advise you all to take private copies or a print-out of your favorite pages of the World Kigo Database, since you (and certainly I) knever know when it will be gone one day ...

GABI


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darkness between

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googeling ...
the darkness between
my ignorance




quote
the darkness between the stars
is a tone poem/haiku in which I tried to invoke the darkness/void/loneliness of deep space; out where there is nothing. 99.9999+ percent of the universe is an empty lonely place.

while I was writing this piece I imaged myself floating in the darkness of deep space billions of miles from any other being, billons of miles from even just another object, with just the faint dots of stars everywhere in the black void.
source : (2005) by Ed Sharpe





inspired by some friends poems ...


starry night the darkness between fireflies

Bill Kenney
(Published in Acorn #20)

source : www.magnapoets.com




googeling ...
"the darkness between" haiku

Mason Jennings The darnkess between the fireflies

Waking in the Darkness Between Us

the darkness between the stars

In the Darkness Between Worlds

"The Darkness Between" by Jeremy Minton

"The Darkness Between You And Me"

and so on googeling ...

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Yonago Temple Town

peace for the world ! just some flowers by the temple gate

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Join me on my walk through

Yonago Temple Town


This "Peace Pole" stands in front of many temples in Japan and in other places.
So my haiku is just a bit of shasei, sketching what is in front of my eyes.

May Peace Prevail on Earth !


http://worldpeace.org/blog/?p=18

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Azuma dancer

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this Azuma Dancer ...
she throws a quick kiss
at her patron







Azuma dance and more
Geisha Dances in Japan


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In line 1, I use the word THIS on purpse, to strengthen the idea of this special one, which I saw on TV the other night.

THIS can be used to translate a cut marker, and here it would be YA at the end of the line.
It is not just any dancer (Azuma dancer, an Azuma dancer, the Azuma dancer) ... as line 1 would read otherwise.

After the cut, the haiku continues with the same image. It is therefore in the "ichibutsu jitate" tradition of Japanese haiku.

The CUT in Japanese Haiku




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sound of water

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summer evening -
the gentle dripping
from my well



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mukade

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pulling weeds ...
a centipede hides under
the stone Buddha



This Buddha is rather a small statue in a corner of my garden and when I lifted him up to clear away the weeds, there was a huge centipede there, grinning at me !



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The messenger (retainer) of the deity Bishamonten was thought of as a centipede!
Bishamon and the Centipede
Daruma Museum



. . . Centipede, Millipede ... KIGO



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